Smartphone Technologies
Topic 1: Summarizing Source Information
In your Unit 7 Discussion Board, you will apply your research and summary skills to incorporate one source into the first body paragraph of your Unit 6 draft to revise and strengthen that paragraph. Be sure to consider PIE strategies when you revise your paragraph.
After completing the Unit 7 Discussion Board, continue to revise and strengthen the other body paragraphs in your Unit 6 Assignment. Locate and incorporate source information into each paragraph to support and validate your ideas and prepare for success in Unit 8.
I. Your INITIAL POST should:
Use the following downloadable Body Paragraph Revision Chart to create a plan to revise and strengthen the first body paragraph in your Unit 6 Assignment.
Include summarized source information to support the topic sentence of that paragraph.
Copy and paste your completed chart to the Discussion Board.
Topic sentence for body paragraph 1 of Unit 6 Assignment
A peer reviewed, secondary source that helps support the topic sentence
Short original passage from the source
Your summary of the source information in your own words
Revised paragraph that includes
● Topic sentence
● Original ideas
● Summarized source information supporting topic sentence
● A signal phrase like According to Smith… when you use the source
● Analysis of the source information
Include an open-ended question about the draft you have written, perhaps about a concern you have about how well the source information supports your paragraph topic sentence or how effectively you integrate the source into the paragraph.
Refer 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.
Revised Paragraph for Body Paragraph 1
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Revised Paragraph for Body Paragraph 1
Smartphones have significantly increased web accessibility. Puspitasari and Ishii (2016) found that most people use smartphones to access the internet. The study found that 95% of people use smartphones for research, chatting with friends, leisure, and work (Puspitasari & Ishii, 2016). The study also found that smartphone users spend 7 hours online daily.
Smartphones strongly influence internet behavior, as shown by this evidence. Smartphones have made internet access and information searching easier (Sunday et al., 2021). Overreliance on these devices for web access has reduced people's memorizing efforts because they can easily retrieve knowledge.
Open-Ended Question
In an age where knowledge is readily available online, how can individuals reconcile the ease of smartphone technology for web access with the requirement to preserve information through memory?
Topic Sentence for Body Paragraph 1 of Unit 6 Assignment