Decisions..Decisions...
I have been assigned an 8-10 page term paper for my Advanced Composition class, and I am having a little trouble deciding what to write about. I have come up with some of the following topics, but I am not exactly sure which of them work and which of them do not. Could somebody out there help me choose?
Should I choose:
A. In the past, when technology was first introduced into the classroom, it was believed that technology would shorten the socio-economic gap between the haves and the have-nots. However, it seems that the opposite has actually happened because people of lower economic status and minority groups often have less access to technology than other people of different socioeconomic groups. Is technology widening or shortening the socio-economic divide?
B. Technology and the advent of the internet has really changed the way writing is viewed. In the past, publishing was very limited, but today anybody can publish anything out there in Cyberspace. Since anybody can now publish writing, who decides what writing is really good and what writing is not? It is like art. Who decides what is and isn’t a masterpiece? Isn’t the decision about whether writing is good or whether writing is terrible completely subjective?
C. In the past, people didn’t even have television. Now the children of today watch television while chatting, downloading MP3’s, and browsing for a new instant message avatar all at the same time. Is the constant multitasking of today’s technological environment making children smarter, or is it negatively affecting children?
I am afraid that B will be difficult to find information about to prove a stance, and that C is too broad and will be seen as not being specifically about writing. I am scared that A will be a common topic that many people choose to write about and I want my topic to be different.
I also thought about the following topics, but it seemed kind of boring:
In what ways is technology being used and is it being used effectively in the ESL classroom?
I thought of the following topic, but I thought it would be seen as unrelated to writing:
Are online colleges as effective as traditional academic ones?
Would any readers out there please let me know what you think?
Should I choose:
A. In the past, when technology was first introduced into the classroom, it was believed that technology would shorten the socio-economic gap between the haves and the have-nots. However, it seems that the opposite has actually happened because people of lower economic status and minority groups often have less access to technology than other people of different socioeconomic groups. Is technology widening or shortening the socio-economic divide?
B. Technology and the advent of the internet has really changed the way writing is viewed. In the past, publishing was very limited, but today anybody can publish anything out there in Cyberspace. Since anybody can now publish writing, who decides what writing is really good and what writing is not? It is like art. Who decides what is and isn’t a masterpiece? Isn’t the decision about whether writing is good or whether writing is terrible completely subjective?
C. In the past, people didn’t even have television. Now the children of today watch television while chatting, downloading MP3’s, and browsing for a new instant message avatar all at the same time. Is the constant multitasking of today’s technological environment making children smarter, or is it negatively affecting children?
I am afraid that B will be difficult to find information about to prove a stance, and that C is too broad and will be seen as not being specifically about writing. I am scared that A will be a common topic that many people choose to write about and I want my topic to be different.
I also thought about the following topics, but it seemed kind of boring:
In what ways is technology being used and is it being used effectively in the ESL classroom?
I thought of the following topic, but I thought it would be seen as unrelated to writing:
Are online colleges as effective as traditional academic ones?
Would any readers out there please let me know what you think?
posted by mariam5 at 11:18 AM
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