Distractions While Learning
Topic 1: Drafting Your Informal Blog Post
Your Unit 4 Discussion Board focuses on drafting and revising your Unit 4 Assignment. For a successful experience with these writing process steps, be sure to:
Review the Unit 4 Assignment instructions again.
Consider the feedback you received on your Unit 3 Discussion Board topic proposal ideas.
Select the one topic you posted about in the Unit 3 Discussion Board (or a different one if you have changed your topic ideas) that you feel is most appropriate for the Unit 4 Assignment and that you can best write about.
Brainstorm ideas and details you would need to include in a blog post on this topic.
Use the following downloadable Blog Post Graphic Organizer to organize your thoughts about this topic.
SAMPLE
Blog Post Graphic Organizer
Paragraph 1
● Introduce topic
● Grab audience
● Establish main point
Paragraph 2
● Share relevant personal experience with the problem
● Show how you were able to deal with or solve the problem
Paragraph 3
● Motivate your audience to also use your recommended solution
● Draw it to a close
I. INITIAL POST - Be sure your initial post:
Shares your ideas about your chosen topic in a rough draft for your Unit 4 Assignment
Is developed in at least two paragraphs and is at least 200 words long
Includes a brief reflection: What Unit 4 Assignment rubric requirements are you currently meeting in this draft and what do you still need to do to meet all requirements?
Includes an open-ended question about the draft you have written, perhaps about a concern you have about your main point or the way you develop ideas or connect with and motivate your audience to adopt your recommended solution to the problem you are writing about.
Refers to and credits the Unit Lab and PG resources concepts to help validate your ideas about writing and to give you practice with using and crediting sources.
Demonstrates your time-management skills. Aim to apply best practices by posting by Saturday of the unit so you can then focus on other tasks like responding to classmates and any journal or paper assignments
Unit 4 Discussion College Composition
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Unit 4 Discussion College Composition
Recent study findings indicate that 38% of learners cannot concentrate on their studies for 10 minutes without looking at their social media accounts or phone. Up to 75% of college students succumb to distractions from some form of technology while studying (Kirst, 2018). Texting and social media are the biggest distractions during study time. Learners who succumb to the temptations of checking their phones or social media account must study longer and tend to score lower grades than their peers who multitask less often when studying. This blog will discuss avoiding phone or social media distractions while learning.
I am a big social media fan, and I have fallen into the habit of constantly browsing Twitter threads and news sites when I should be concentrating on my studies. I have discovered that it is easy to get distracted and spend up to half an hour br...