E110 Section 130

Research Paper Presentation

This assignment asks you to practice effectively and clearly communicating with an audience orally, as opposed to in writing, by giving a presentation based around your research paper. The presentation should be no more than 5 minutes long (with roughly 2 minutes of questions…

Research Paper Remix

In Rewriting, Joseph Harris makes the argument that digital platforms have opened up avenues for writers to reach a wider and more diverse group of readers, and that sometimes taking a draft and “remixing” it (often digitally) has the effect of spurring the project forward toward a new…

Revisions

Original:

Telomere length is proven to be critical for all forms of life. All organisms require them to be able to survive. Telomeres are produced by the enzyme telomerase which “adds the TTAGGG telomere sequence to the ends of chromosomes. The sequence, made of nucleotides, can only…

1. This past March I traveled to Antigua, a small island in the West Indies. Upon arriving to the island, from the plane window, all I could see was pastel colored houses and crystal-clear blue water. This was a very different sight from landing in say, Boston or New York City. As I was making my way to the hotel, I had about a 40-minute car ride…

Blog 6 — Revision of Introduction

Working in the dairy industry is a very taxing job for anyone to have for a long period of time. Before automated feeders, automated water buckets, and all other “normal” today technologies being a part of the dairy industry was a hard labor job. Even today with all the…

Blog Post 6

1. There is no debate surrounding the question of if instant replay makes officiating a game more accurate; but we ask ourselves, is instant replay really helping sports or damaging it? Those who argue that instant replay is beneficial for sports support their stance with reasons regarding higher accuracy and…

Blog 6: Revising

1. There of course are questions of how often this CSI Effect actually affects the thought processes of jurors. Some alarming research was done by Walden University which makes some strong claims about verdict influences. The research claimed that, “Most jurors (95%) reported that they watched CSI…

Revisions

• Paragraph from Draft 1 → pictured below
• Revisions from Draft 1 → pictured below

To revise my paragraph from the first Rough Draft, I used Harris’ technique of tracking revision. This technique allowed me to see first-hand, what changes I was making while…

Blog Post 6

Original: Although many people in society would disagree, I believe that body cameras should be used by every police officer because it has many positive effects that would not only help the officers but also the citizens they interact with. My paper will discuss the positive and negative impacts that body…

Revising — Blog Post #6

About four years ago, during my freshman year of high school, my best friend was being bullied because of a selfie she posted on Instagram. Our peers were whispering how her “eyes looked huge” and that she looked like she “gained a few pounds”. Not only were these rumors spread in…

Blog Post 5: So What? Who Cares?

In Jane McGonigal’s TedTalk “Gaming can make a better world”, she claims that people need to spend more time playing online games, and in turn that will improve and solve our current world’s problems. I think she does answer the questions of “so what” and “who cares”. She…

Gaming is the future

Jane McGonigal speaks about the importance of gaming. According to the Dr., she believes that if the world triples the hours we game per week, we will be able to solve issues surrounding hunger, poverty, and climate change. Children and people of all ages have been critiqued many times for…

Game for Greater Good

In “Gaming Can Make A Better World” a Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal video games are discussed in a positive way and Jane describes a way to use games to help people better the world. Because gaming has because such a large part of our world today she takes the time to explain why video games…

Who Cares if Gaming Makes The World Better

Jane McGonigal in her TED talk, “Gaming can make a better world,” relates to the topics discussed in “They Say / I Say,” by Birkenstein and Graff. McGonigal explores the idea of harnessing “gamer power to solve real-world problems” throughout her talk…

Blog Post 5

The article “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissell does not really answer the questions “so what?” and “who cares?” on its own. Since it is only part of a novel I feel as though other chapters may answer these questions as I can only imply the answers to these question from just reading the article. I feel that the…

Blog Post 4

I feel as though as long as artificial intelligence is being constantly monitored and not resulting in artificial intelligence utilizing its lack of insight to the detriment of mankind, then we should take advantage of artificial intelligence and enable it to help mankind prosper.

Blog Post 5

In the Jane McGonigal TED Talk video, she introduces the idea that video games can be the solution to urgent world problems. She explains that the large population of gamers need to concentrated their time on a game that challenges them to find answers to real world problems. She says that people excell…

So What? Who Cares?

In the chapter, “Extra Lives”, by Tom Bissell, he explains his addiction to playing video games and how he has gone to many destinations and continues to play them. He wakes up at 8 am every morning and starts by playing video games and does this until 5 pm. Bissell continues to explain this…

Gaming changes the world

In the TED talk, Gaming Can Make a Better World, Jane McGonigal argues that video games can help us make the world a better place and by playing more games we will be able to solve some of the problems in the world. Gaming gives us so much positive feedback in real time that anytime…

Could Gaming Save Our World?

In the Ted Talk with Jane McGonigal, she explains her plan to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save in online games. Her plan involves convincing more people to spend more time playing online games. By doing this, and upping the number of hours people…

Artificial Intelligence: Life as We Know It

Artificial intelligence or AI is defined in today’s culture as technology or computer systems designed to perform certain tasks. It is commonly mistaken for robots seen in science fiction movies but we face AI on a daily basis without realizing it. I…

Artificial Intelligence: Convenience for all

Artificial intelligence is a very promising concept. It does have a few concerns like taking over the world but, I believe that most of the things it has to offer are positive. Artificial intelligence is making things easier. Whether it is picking…

Artificial intelligence is defined as “the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” Even though this sounds like something that might be all good, but there are some possible bad things…