It also has a very defined thesis statement at the beginning "Online courses are an excellent way for busy professionals to gain advanced training and certifications or switch career paths. They can also be very effective for first-time job seekers who need specialized training. However, before signing up, here are a few factors that can ensure an online student's success." It easily caught my attention to continue reading and also let me know what I am getting into before actually starting reading the essay; I call it a "Sneak Peak". In "A Soul as Free as the Air: About Lucy Stone" I felt this was a character study which focuses on a specific person of interest.
Eventually will we rely on artificial intelligence for everything? Carr's point is that we already rely on it so much that we need to go back to traditional reading. Carr makes a concession that using google and artificial intelligence is useful because we systemize information and make it much easier to access and understand than traditional reading. It is important to his argument
Nowadays, within one minute searching with the toolbars, the great databases of the Internet will immediately bring the information to us. Besides, the printed books became the past thanks to the e-book and other online works on the Internet. Writing becomes a real challenge even to a writer since we spend too much time on the media. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s
I have learned how to evaluate these sources effectively in order for them to support my work. Knowing the motive behind the page and its information will help me judge the credibility of its content in the future. I now know how important it is to use the same evaluation techniques for internet sources as I would for a book or journal article. I have discovered the importance of acknowledging the work of others, and now have a clear understanding of how an online source is used, whether it be scholarly or non scholarly. I now have more confidence in terms of using online literature as a part of an assessment.
With so many people around the world entering information online, there was a need to properly categorized data so it can be found by the search engines. Google, Bing, and Yahoo the major players on Internet search engine employed algorithms to help users to find information. Search engines created ranks to classified information, as a means of separating professional written articles from armatures. Perhaps, the most significant metric used by search engines is authority; it measures the degree of information on a specific keyword or term. Some of the metrics used to rank web 2.0 applications are the unique monthly visitors, Alexa rank, the number of users, and quality of
The American Psychological Association website was located easily by Googling the abbreviation of APA. However, the American Counseling Association was slightly more difficult in that I had to actually spell out the whole title. Out of curiosity I conducted web searches on both organizations using Bing, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Ask, and even DuckDuckGo. Each search engine required me to input the entire name for the American Counseling Association which I find slightly inconvenient due to the fact that, in my opinion their website was much more informative and easier to use then the site for the American Psychological
2) The author feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain, making it change. He no longer enjoys reading a book of any length because he cannot sustain concentration on the book. 3) He feels that all the time he now spends online is affecting his abilities to concentrate. He recognizes that the Internet has been a useful tool for him to search for information and communicate. He notes that, unlike footnotes, links send you to the information rather than just refer to it.
How to structure paragraphs, so that my audience understands my point of view. I have learned how to engage my audience without them being confused, into what I want the reader to know about the new design software. As I reflect upon my analytical report that I have written, I am confident to say that this was one of my favorite papers to do research on. It allowed me to write about something that I truly feel very strong about. I also can teach my children how to incorporate graphs, and teach them how to structure an Analytical Report.
Nicholas cites many experts who are mostly literary types, on how they too feel about the “Net.” Most of them seem to have similar experiences while on the internet. The more they use it, the more they have to struggle to stay focused on the task at hand. Scott Karp, a blogger who writes about media, went as far to say
Recently, we have working on the WebQuest “Recycle City”. http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/ On this WebQuest, there is a lot of reading and graphics which may cause a problem for this student. This student puts much effort into his everyday class work. Even completing experiments in class can be challenging to him. Using the Internet is also a challenge and I need to be aware continuously of these challenges and implement every possible way to include him in these activities.