Blog #21

Reflection on Short Analysis

• I have to get into the mind set of research rather then writing a piece of literature.
• I struggled with creating detailed codes, and then once i had a coding system I didnt further analyze, I just left it as is.
• I learned that I have to strengthen my research, rather then focus on my writing.
• I also need to be more organized with how I present my data

Overall I enjoyed doing the short analysis paper, it was my very first "research" paper, and although I didn't do as well as I had anticipated, I know that the best way to improve is leaning from your mistakes, and believe me my short analysis contained plenty.

Blog #20

1.  What are the strengths your writing for the introduction?  What do you need to work on? 
What are the strengths of your writing for the review of the literature?  What do you need to work on?

• I feel that my introduction is slightly vauge and lacks certain details. When I wrote it, I was trying to not give away my entire arsenal of points that I was going to be making throughout the paper.  

2. What is the research problem identified in your introduction?  How do you point out what your research project will contribute toward resolving this "problem"?  In other words, what have you written about  the importance of your project for writing studies?

• I believe the topic of cell phones are very important, due to the fact that almost every child over the age of 14, most likely has a cell phone. The problem identified is that more and more people are becoming reliant on cell phones to do simply everyday tasks. I'm focusing on the effects of having mass convenient all around us, and how people react when things aren't as convenient 

3. What have other researchers found out about your topic that is relevant to your research project?

Other researchers have found that cell phones are being "over-used" and people are "overcommunicating" a problem that has been unheard of in previous generations.

4.  How do you connect findings from question 3 to the purpose of your project?

• I want to find specific examples, by interviewing people who have grown up without cell phones and compare it to someone who is growing up with cell phones, asking the same set of questions, and comparing the answers i get.

5.  What is your plan for finishing your introduction and literature review?

• Keep revising and reading it aloud, so I can make sure it sounds nice and flows smoothly. At the moment I feel like it's just a bunch of points jumbled together. 

6.  What feedback do you want from me?

• I'd like to know how YOU think I should start off my intro. The topic is so vast I'm not quite sure where to draw the readers attention to first 

Blog 19

Question: Do cell phones keep us more connected to social communities or do they isolate us from each other.


In the last couple of decades, our world has seen a rapid growth of technology, not just in computers, there is technology in almost everyone's daily life, whether its a GPS to navigate, or solar panels on your roof, technology is all around us.

More specifically, cell phones, have evolved so rapidly over the past few decades, so much to the point where they have become a necessity of life for some, because they can make certain tasks very convenient. However as we know, everything has two sides. Cell-phones have presented us with an entirely new set of problems. If cell phones are there for the sole purpose of communication, is it possible that this generation and the ones to come are over-communicating? The increase of cell phones and social networking over the past couple of decades are meant to make it easier for us to communicate, but do these advances in technology really make it more complicated to express how we truly feel? Are we moving towards an age where humans have limited contact with each other?