References :
1. The effects of Social Networking Site (SNS) use on college students
friendship and well-being
Jin-Liang Wang a,, Linda A. Jackson b, James Gaskin c, Hai-Zhen Wang d
2. Associations Between Online Friendship and Internet Addiction AmongAdolescents and Emerging Adults
David Smahel Masaryk University, B. Bradford Brown University of WisconsinMadison Lukas Blinka Masaryk University
Thinking back to our previous handouts, you have three main components for your intro section, plus one more component that I’m going to mention here.
Frame of reference
Grounds for Comparison
Thesis Statement
This week I’m going to add one more point-
1) Hook-
You want to start off your paper by grabbing the reader. Think back to Dr. Conway’s article on optimism and pessimism, she started by mentioning that there has been a huge increase in grandparents caring for their grandchildren and she gave us some stats about it. Or, how about the article by Sharon Begly, she started with the Dalai Lama; Verbeek started his article by mentioning that previous research has found that behavioral treatment are just as effective as medication for insomnia. Think about your topic and find something interesting to grab the reader- it could be something from current events, a definition of a disorder, or a statistic related to your topic.
2) Frame of reference:
There were a few questions about this last week. The frame of reference is the frame for the two articles, i.e. what is the topic of the two articles. For this assignment, that’s easy to figure out, just look at your two articles and figure what point that are trying to prove. For the topic of homosexuality the topic is whether homosexuality is biologically based on environmentally based. For the abortion topic, the frame of reference is whether or not abortion leads to unwanted mental health problems.
3) Grounds for comparison:
There were also a few questions about this last week. Generally speaking, after you explain the topic, you want to make it clear why you chose these two articles. My assumption for most of these articles is that they are written by PHD researchers who are experts in this topic and that they have written on it before as well.
