Digital Culture Facebook Vs Twitter And Their Impact

Prompt:
Step #1). Choose two social media platforms (Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp) and compare how they affect society in various ways.
Step #2). Discuss the details of how they each function and how those unique aspects reflect and affect society. (For instance, Tweets are limited to 140 characters – reflects headline-only culture or snarky one-liner culture or both. Instagram being primary image-focused frames culture as image-related, etc.)
Step #3). What insights can you draw from these differences between the two platforms?
Step #4). Use quotes/paraphrase from at least six outside sources (two of which must be reading from your Signs of Life in The USA book, but the sources others must be from academic books or journal articles) to support and illustrate your arguement of your essay.
Step #5) You must use at least one quote from all six different outside academic sources (two of which must be reading from your Signs of Life in the USA book).
Essay Requirements:
1). Essay should be 7 double-spaced pages in MLA format.
2). Should have a title that states topic and hints at thesis.
3). Introduction should begin with 3-5 sentences introducing the topic of social media and the particular issues or platforms you will be discussing
4). A thesis statement should end the introduction making an analytical argument—that is detailed, developed, and dynamic—that shows a college-level engagement.
5). Body paragraphs should begin with clearly articulated topic sentences that develop individual points helping to support your overall thesis.
6). Evidence should describe the platforms/issues and be connected to quotes, paraphrase, and/or summary from outside sources (two of which must be reading from your Signs of Life in the USA book).
7). Conclusion should bring these individual points back to the overall thesis and make it clear what the implications are for society in the near future.
8). Include a Work's Cited Page.
9). Essays should follow MLA style and format and be a typed, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1” margins all around.
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Notes from Professor to Students:
Here are helpful hints to help you write the essay by focusing on paragraph development.
Paragraph Development:
Writing body paragraphs is maybe the most important part of writing an essay simply because most of the essay is made up of body paragraphs (as opposed to the introduction or the conclusion). For this reason, it is important to understand the different ingredients that go into a good academic body paragraph. I use the word "ingredients" because writing is a lot like cooking, first you follow a recipe to understand how different ingredients work with each other in order to achieve the basic flavor of a dish, but eventually you come to master those ingredients and no longer have to look at a recipe in order to make the dish taste the way you want it to taste, rather than the recipe.
The basic ingredients of a developed body paragraph are as follows:
• Topic Sentence
• Explanation
• Evidence
• Comment
• Transition
*Topic Sentence:
State the point of the paragraph. What is the main idea you are exploring in this one segment of your essay? Be sure that it has some connection to the overall thesis from your introduction. If it doesn't, then you are probably off track from the essay's purpose. Keep the topic sentence simple and direct. One mistake that developing writers often make is trying to make their ideas "sound" smart by using overly complex diction and syntax, but as you learn to work with this key ingredient, keep the wording simple so that your idea will be clear.
*Explanation:
Expand on the point from your topic sentence without going into the specific evidence yet. If there are any words that need defining in your topic sentence, this is a good place to do it.
*Example:
Use quotations that support the point of the paragraph or that add necessary voice from authoritative sources. Use any other specific data, detail, or example that supports the point of the topic sentence.
*Connection:
Explain the connection of the quotation or example to the topic sentence. Don't assume that your reader will make that connection on their own.
*Transition:
Connect the main idea of this paragraph with the main idea of the next paragraph. Not all paragraphs need a transition; you need to decide if the ideas from one to the other naturally flow, or if you need to make it clear with a transition.
* You should usually have two or three examples in a typical paragraph. Each time you should follow that example with a brief connection.
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Notes from me to the ESSAY ZOO Writer:
I included screenshot file images of three readings that we did prior such as:
1). "From the Instamatic to Instagram: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers" by Nancy Jo Sales from pages 428 to page 435.
2). "It's complicated: MySpace vs. Facebook" by Danah Boyd from pages 437 to page 444.
3). "How Effective is Social Media Activism" by Erin Lee from pages 402 to page 404.
*The ISBN for the book of “Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers”. by Author's Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon. Ninth Edition is ISBN 1-3190-5663-6
Thank you for your time.