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"Your College Major..." Article:

Article:

   The main idea of this article is about plagarism and the measures being taken to catch and penalize students who are accused of plagarism.This article uses primarily first hand accounts to explain to the audience how easy it is to find plagarized excerpts in a writing. The author then goes on to explain various statistics which show the number of students who confess to have committed various plagarisms and a few brief examples of graduate-level s...

Craig Zimmerman's Essay

   The thesis statement for this essay appears to be about six sentences long. The first sentence introduces what the remainder of the essay will be about and each of the other five sentences talk about what each section of the essay will discuss. The subtitles of this essay are directly relevant to the thesis statement since the thesis explained what each ...

Essay 1:

  The first essay focuses on the evolution of social networking both on and off the internet. The author discusses social networking starting from the advent of human language to modern times and into the future. The author supports her topic by contributing a section of the essay to "A Brief History" of social networking before moving on to a discussion of how people communicate during modern times. In the modern times section, the author talks about the wide variety of s...

Outline:

Main Idea: The history of the Symphonic Orchestra

Introduction: Introduce what the Symphony Orchestra is and why they were formed

Background/History: Talk about what the first orchestras were like and move through time to modern orchestras.

Present Day:

-Talk about the main differences between the modern and past symphony orchestras.

-What do people think of symphony orchestras

-What do I think of the symphony or...

  While I don't know if it was intentional or not, I found it clever that the article tested its own theory that the internet and search engines are making people unable to concentrate through lengthy works of literature and interpret in-depth writings. Truth be told, I found myself staring to skim when I was about halfway through the article. This main idea is supported by many theor...

-Yifan

  The first essay I read was Yifan's essay. Although this essay contained a few errors, it was clear that the overall idea was about a foreign exchange student coming to study in the U.S. The essay explains his personal journey and how it affected him for the better. The main idea is supported by firsthand accounts of the author' experiences mixed in with an account of his friend's own experience. The author then goes on to explain how each of his experiences shape...

  As the title of the article explains, the primary focus of this article was to explain what the phrase "writing in the cloud" means and present four different programs which enable a user to access the cloud. This is supported by a brief explaination of the advantages of using "the cloud" vs. a piece of hardware such as a USB stick or other media. The author then goes on to explain four types of software that can be used.

  Based on the author's word choice, i...

  Like the title says, the main idea of this article is to inform a reader on the various ways they can use Google drive. This idea is presented through a series of three steps. Each of these steps explain briefly and simply how a the Google Drive utility can be implemented to not only back up files and documents but to also store them on Google's cloud network for accessibility.

  After reading the first few paragraphs, the reader can see that the author antici...