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Discuss the impact of social media on American youth between 13 and 17 yrs.

The Paper

Does the introduction give the basic information (dates, locations, basic desription of topic)?

Does the paper go beyond just reporting what happened?

Is the thesis clealy stated?

Does the information in the paper relate to it?

Are there connections to the thesis at the end of the body paragraphs?

Are quotes set up and explained.

Does the paper contain all relevant dates?

Are events/people adequately explained?

Citations

Are there at least two scholarly sources and a primary source?

Does the paper have in-text citations?

Is MLA or APA format used consistantly throughtout.

Other Stuff

Make sure that there is no first person

Maker sure that there are no questions.

Make sure that there are not basic grammar/usage errors.

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1. Sources If you review the paper assignment, you will see that using scholarly articles is a requirement. There were several papers that were based on websites and newspaper articles. Journalists are not scholars. They can provide useful information and be good sources, but their work does not have the level of detail or verification that scholarly articles do. If you are unsure about this requirement, help is available at the Research Help Desk of the library. Just let the people working there know that you need scholarly articles and they will help you find some.

2. General Language I read several papers about “children” and “technology,” yet not one discussed every human being on the planet under 18 or everything mechanized thing that has ever been invented since the dawn of time. In many cases, I think that the papers should have been on American youth between 13 and 17 and the impact of social media, but I will never know because the papers did not say. These kinds of specifics matter, and the lack of them shows that you are not looking at detailed sources

3. Buiding and Argument Everyone had research in their points, but very few of you drew connections among them. Every paragraph stood as an independent paragraph summarizing someone’s research. So if scholar A made point X, and scholar B made point Y, your paper should discuss at somewhere how these points are related and what they show together. That is the argument part and how you use research to make an argument rather than just summarizing points on the same topic. If you are reading good sources, you will have examples of how scholars to do this, and that will help you as well. (Anyone noting a theme here?)

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