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Social Issues and Teen Developments

Coursework Instructions:

1. After reading 8 articles, answer the corresponding questions.
2. Each quiz is about 30 words.
3. In Reading 8, you need to choose an article from the provided website. Please help me choose an article on subject of psychology to answer.
4. Don't use too complicated language, just concise and efficient.

ENG 22A Mid-term exam (Nov. 6, 2020)


*Post your answers on Canvas, Assignment on Mid-term exam


Reading #1

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614941/internet-that-never-forgets-bad-for-young-people-online-permanence/

  1. What is the purpose/aim of this text? How might the purpose of this text influence the way it is written? Explain the major structure of this kind of reading text.

  2. What kinds of social issues are involved in the reading? Why is it important to consider those issues?

  3. Highlight (or cut & paste) sentences or some parts in the paragraphs that you think are especially important in understanding the main points. Then, briefly summarize the key issues.

  4. What are the two different views about teens’ developments mentioned in the text?

  5. Choose three important words in the reading and make three example sentences.

Reading #2

https://theconversation.com/enhancing-the-involvement-of-people-with-disabilities-in-disability-research-128228

  1. In recent years, what has been changing in Indonesia regarding its approach to people with disabilities

  2. What is participatory research and what are the challenges to implementing it?

  3. What needs to be done, both in other countries and in Indonesia? 

  4. Choose three important words in the reading and make three example sentences.

Reading #3

https://theconversation.com/what-we-learn-from-a-fish-that-can-change-sex-in-just-10-days-129063

  1. What triggers the sex change?

  2. What is epigenetics and what is an example of this?

  3. What is the advantage to changing sex? Who benefits?

  4. Choose three important words in the reading and make three example sentences.

Reading #4

https://theconversation.com/reporting-on-china-in-africa-is-too-binary-what-needs-to-be-done-to-fix-it-115644

  1. What are the main problems in this article?

  2. What does the author want to inform to readers?

  3. Choose three important words in the reading and make three example sentences.

Reading #5 “Decreasing Sedentary Behavior: Effects on Academic Performance, Meta-Cognition, and Sleep,” Frontiers in Neuroscience (2017)
Reading #6 “Limiting Children's Recreational Screen Time to Less Than Two Hours a Day Linked to Better Cognition, Study Finds,” Science Daily (2018)

  1. Identify the structure of each article by looking at the subcategories. Compare the similarities and differences in the two articles.

  2. Read the abstract in Reading #5 and analyze the features and patterns of the content organization in the abstract.

  3. What would be the purpose of including previous studies related to the studies?

  4. What are the main contents in the discussion section in Reading #5?

    1. Take a look at the ‘Materials and Methods’ section in Reading #5. Why is it important to have this section to readers?

    2. Choose three important words in one of the two research articles and make three example sentences.

Reading #7: UCI Podcast: Top Chef winner and UCI alumna Melissa King dishes out college cooking tips. July 2, 2020

https://news.uci.edu/2020/07/02/uci-podcast-top-chef-winner-and-uci-alumna-melissa-king-dishes-out-college-cooking-tips

  1. This is a Podcast. Either listening to the podcast or reading the interview script, in this interview, what would be the key arguments to audience?

  2. What kinds of social issues and challenges did the person encounter and how did she overcome? Why is it important to consider those issues?

  3. In relating to your personal experience, what are your takeaways from this reading?

  4. Vocabulary: Write the meaning of each word below and write one example sentence by using each vocabulary.

-Rescind:  meaning & an example sentence

-Grappling:

- Perpetuate:

- Make ends meet:

-Pervasive:

-Exacerbate:

-Foster:

-Aftermath:

Reading #8 Choose one article on the website https://theconversation.com/us/education.

  1. Discuss the main issues in the article and talk about your thoughts to the issues considering your own experience.

  2. Make three questions from the article.

  3. Choose five unfamiliar vocabulary from this reading and make a vocabulary log with meanings and example sentences for each word.

The mid-term is done! (You will be asked to talk about your article choice in the class briefly next week.)

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ENG 22A Mid-term exam
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ENG 22A Mid-term exam (Nov. 6, 2020)
*Post your answers on Canvas, Assignment on Mid-term exam by Nov. 7, 11: 59 pm (Pacific Time).

Reading #1
/s/614941/internet-that-never-forgets-bad-for-young-people-online-permanence/
1 What is the purpose/aim of this text? How might the purpose of this text influence the way it is written? Explain the major structure of this kind of reading text.
The text explores internet usage and how it influences significant decisions in the future lives of the youths. This influences how the article is written in that it has to adhere to styles and examples resonating with youths.
2 What kinds of social issues are involved in the reading? Why is it important to consider those issues?
The article relates how youths and other internet users publish posts without thinking of such posts' consequences. It is essential to consider such issues because they educate people on how our negative publications on the internet can come to haunt us later in our lives.
3 Highlight (or cut & paste) sentences or some parts in the paragraphs that you think are especially important in understanding the main points. Then, briefly summarize the key issues.
"Today, people enter adulthood with much of their childhood and adolescence still up for scrutiny. But as past identities and mistakes become stickier, it's not just individuals who might suffer" (Eichhorn, 2019).
"In a world where the past haunts the present, young people may calcify their identities, perspectives, and political positions at an increasingly young age" (Eichhorn, 2019).
These excerpts describe the unforgetting nature of the internet, which has turned against internet users and is haunting them. Youths are busily calcifying their identities at a very tender age.
4 What are the two different views about teens' developments mentioned in the text?
The first view is that teens are addicted to the internet, and unconsciously use it to destroy their future. Secondly, Institutions and entities should not at all time use our past to determine our present fate
5 Choose three important words in the reading and make three example sentences.
* The internet never forgets
* Our negative publications on the internet haunt us in future
* Some organization use our past to determine our present
Reading #2
https://theconversation.com/enhancing-the-involvement-of-people-with-disabilities-in-disability-research-128228
1 In recent years, what has been changing in Indonesia regarding its approach to people with disabilities
The people living with disabilities have been included in the research. Through the government's aid, people living with a disability are included in key processes that affect them, including participating in research.
2 What is participatory research and what are the challenges to implementing it?
Participatory research refers to including all the stakeholders before carrying out research. It is hard to implement it due to resource input demand to accomplish funding ("Enhancing the involvement of people with disabilities in disability research," 2019). However, it is an adv...
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