Hooked on gadgets and paying a mental price

academic english writing
Subject
Humanities

School
University of Missouri - Columbia

Question Description
LAL101 essay 3: Technology in our lives (cultural analysis)

I need the rough draft by Wednesday , and the essay next Saturday

Value: 100 points
Length: 1,000-1,200 words (3-4 pages)

Due dates:
Rough draft: ___________________ at class time (see Canvas calendar)

Final draft: ___________________ at 11:59 p.m. (see Canvas calendar)This assignment will involve a combination of informative and reflective cultural analysis writing. You will complete this writing in four parts:

For a 24-hour period, keep track of your technology usage. This includes time you spend on your phone, computer, watching TV—anything that has a screen counts.
For this to really work, you need to be accurate and honest—don’t worry about my judgment of you.
You can be as simple or as techno-happy as you want about this—use a time management app (suggestions on Canvas), the ScreenTime feature if you have an iPhone, or keep a pen-and-paper log, or both. Feel free to make your own notes as part of your prewriting process.
Do “count” multi-tasking—on a device (or watching a screen) while doing something else.
Complete this part of the assignment by _________________.
Organize your thoughts into a clear main idea about your technology usage and whatabout culture influences it – in a positive or negative perspective, or perhaps both. The important thing is that you have a claim (think “because”). We will talk about claims in class, and you have plenty of student examples to look at on Canvas (but don’t plagiarize!).
Outline, draft, revise, and edit your essay.