Assignment 2

Steven Schwarz

English 102

Assignment 2

Building a Mystery

I believe the thesis statement of this piece is that traditional textbooks tend to reinforce unoriginal writing by providing a standardized concept of how academic research writing should look. Posusta created a way for students to write effectively when they procrastinate on the writing portion of a research paper. It ultimately provides them with the bare essentials that every research paper should have.

The argument of the paper is really asking the question, "will this format prepare students for other academic strategies pertaining to their research paper aside from the paper itself?" Procrastination leads to ineffective learning. there's really no way around it.

A lot was said about research writing in general. Posusta says it can be done in one night, but two would be better. If you speak your mind and answer the questions brought up in the research, many times that's just not enough.  The public is uninterested in the detached perspective of the modernist research paper.

They believe their model is helpful to students who would procrastinate on the writing portion regardless of having their model.  Their model for writing gets the job done, and helps the student accomplish what the paper is asking. Unfortunately, for the ambitious student who wishes to do more than just a research paper with their work won't benefit much from this model.  It's not sufficient enough to help with other forms of presenting their research.

The Media Affecting Teenage Rebellion

Steven Schwarz

Eng. 102 Assign. 1a

1/26/2012

The Media Affecting Teenage Rebellion

The topic of this paper isn’t much unexpected in any way.  We’re all college students, and bringing teenage rebellion to the table isn’t really groundbreaking.  They raise the debate that young adulthood is a rather new phenomenon.  The researcher goes on to explain that the media manipulates how people see the world, and the most affected group of people is those in their adolescence.  They ask the question, “Is this affecting teenager’ thinking process and decision making?”  This is a fair question to ask, sure, but to say it’s a new phenomenon is a bit overstated.  

            They cited a couple of studies throughout the piece from what I assume are from universities.  The researcher uses these sources to explain how adolescence has been shaped by both education and urbanization.  The study they used explained how different cultures have changed over the years due to how our young adults communicate and learn in their quickly growing urbanized environments. 

            The author’s style of writing is very straight forward and hard to argue with throughout most of it.  It’s very “matter of fact” in what they write.  It’s very fitting for a research paper.  There was an appropriate amount of quotation.  They used what other people have stated, but didn’t make those quotes the bulk of their paper.  All in all, it’s the model of an exceptional research paper.