Sunday, February 24, 2008

Glossing

The major theme that reoccurs in my essay are the dangers of using a cell phone and driving versus drinking and driving. Throughout my essay i use personal experiences and factual support to examine both sides of this theme. There were really no themes that surprised me. After reading my draft all of the reoccurring ideas made sense to me and had their own places in my paper. I believe i need to develop a little more of the positives of having cell phones with you while driving. I need to do more research on this area to help support that side. I go back and forth between personal experiences and factual support. I believe it makes the paper flow better if you go back and forth. I might have a little repetition in some of my personal experiences but all of my factual support vary and help my essay in different ways.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Researching for Essay Two

When I began researching for my topic i did not know what to expect on how difficult itwould be to find information. From the beginning i found it to be very easy to get information off the network. I was able to get information from many different resources. There were over thousands of different documents discussing the impact that cell phones have on our society today. I was able to find many graphs that are easy to obtain data. There were plenty of charts with stats from different decades since cell phones were introduced into our society. A problem i might have though is that my topic is to broad. I found a lot of information and i might need to get more specific with my question for my essay. If i do this i believe it will be a lot easier for my essay to have a direction. I believe my essay will be a lot more productive if i do this. It might be to vague and a not be a producitve essay if it is too vague. I am going to try to really focus on the impact that cellphones have on car drivers.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Research Essay

My topic for this second essay is going to be the impact of cell phones on today society. My question is whether this is a positive, negative or both of an impact. I believed there will be plenty of arguments made by government and media available on the web to help beef up my essay. I am interested in this topic because it has some impacts on my family. There was a bill passed placing a tax on cell phones to insert GPS tracking chips in the phone. This was mainly after my mother was in a serious car accident. The problem was when my brother was calling for help on a cell phone and had no idea where he was how are the police and medics suppose to get to them. At the same time i know many accidents are caused by people driving and talking on their cell phones. I believe this will be a very interesting topic to develop into an essay.