Social Media/Technology Essay Outline

Essay

Developing a Thesis and Outline

  1. What is an effective thesis?

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  1. Write an effective thesis about how social media (or technology) has impacted your life, for better or for worse?

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Outline for 1st Essay:

Purpose:

What is the purpose of your first essay and given that purpose, what is the best way for you to go about collecting information and presenting it in your first essay?

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Audience: Instructor and class members (mostly young adults at the same stage of life)

Given the audience, what is going to be the best way to get your points across?

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Tone:

What kind of tone will you use to get across whatever points you want to make about your life? (Amusing, entertaining, serious, questioning, angry, happy, optimistic, pleasant, disappointed confused, relieved, satisfied) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Point of View: First person

As a general rule, essays and research papers are typically NOT written in the first person. (Using “I” statements). Why is this  essay a little bit different?

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Topics of Discussion in First Essay

There are so many ways you can explore the technology in your life (and therefore support your thesis).  You can start by answering these questions:

1. What kind of technology/social media do you use in your life every day?

2. How important is this technology/social media to your life?

3. How would you define technology/social media?

4. How is social media effecting us?

5. What was your response to the social media video’s we watched in class? Could you identify your own emotional biases about any of the issues after watching  these videos? What do you think about your own emotional response to some of the information presented. Were you aware of how you were being manipulated bu any of the speakers or video producers?

There are so many ways to explore this topic, but whatever you choose, it needs to have a theme to hold it all together.

About Amber Lisa

Amber Maiden is the Chief Executive Officer and Co- Founder of Alchemy Enterprises (AE) and spearheads AE’s strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational goals and performance. With regard to her particular consulting areas of expertise, she specializes in Multiculturalism (Diversity), Equal Employment Opportunity compliance and training and Title IX compliance and training with regard to the new legislation and recommendations in the areas of domestic and intimate violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault. Amber has conducted top-to-bottom, organization wide, EEO and Diversity training for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, where she worked as the EEO/Affirmative Action Officer managing that organization’s EEO, Diversity and Affirmative Action programs. This work included policy and curriculum development and implementation at all organizational levels, as well as overseeing (sometimes highly sensitive) EEO investigations. Amber Maiden was also a writing and literature professor at Northern Virginia Community College, where she served in leadership positions on the Achieving the Dream Committee and the Adjunct Faculty Counsel. Amber’s passion for teaching, learning and consulting in the higher ed environment, occurred primarily through the penning of a memoir, The Way Through, Lessons Learned on Life Love and the Journey. Through her own writing process, she was able to transform her own psychological traumas and scars that resulted from childhood experiences with domestic violence. Now, she teaches others to do the same. It is through this work that she has been able to make thousands of meaningful connections with students encountering, enduring and surviving domestic violence, institutional violence and other types of personal violence and sexual assault. Based on this memoir, Amber has created a workshop: The Way Through, Lessons, Learned on Life Love and the Journey of Healing from Domestic and Intimate Violence, that is one of many products that is offered as a product under the Alchemy Enterprise brand. It is a workshop for students who are in the process of healing from intimate violence in their lives. Amber Maiden holds a Juris Doctor degree as well as a Masters in English from George Mason University. For her undergraduate work, she acquired a Bachelors in Political Science from Northwestern University

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