Synthesis Essay: Provided Sources
The following sources have been pre-approved for use with your synthesis essay. This list includes the articles we will evaluate in class plus additional articles you may choose to analyze or use for supporting details. Outside sources require instructor approval (submit via email).
PROBLEMS INVOLVING TECHNOLOGY:
“An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness,” by Tara Parker-Pope
“The Power of Social Media” by Samantha Goodyear
“Online but Not Antisocial,” by Janna Malamud Smith
“How Facebook and Social Media Affect the Minds of Generation Next” by Jordan Turgeon
“The Joy of Quiet,” Pico Iyer
“How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class,” by David H. Aurtor and David Dorn:
“Girl’s Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies,” by Lizette Alvarez
PROBLEMS INVOLVING FOOD:
“The United States of Monsanto?” by Wenonah Hauter on Huffington Post
“The Genetic Revolution Could Curb Would Hunger and Pesticide Use” by Joseph Erbentraut and Lila Shapiro on Huffington Post
“Transforming Food Deserts and Swamps to Fight Obesity,” by Susan Blumenthal, M.D.
“How access to fresh food divides Americans,” by Iris Mansour:
“Your Food Shouldn’t Hospitalize You,” by the Editors:
“Is Food Writing Important?” by Michael Ruhlman:
“Cooking Is Freedom,” by Jim Sollisch
“The Sliming: How processed beef trimmings got rebranded, again and again and again,” by Daniel Engber:
PROBLEMS INVOLVING EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY:
“Should College Be Free, Or Will That Make Us Worthless Slackers” by Haley Snyder
“The Lows of Higher Ed,” by Gail Collins:
“Politicians Introduce Bills That Would Work to Reduce The Role Of School Standardized Testing” by Rebecca Klein
“A Dangerous ‘New Normal’ in College Debt,” by Charles M. Blow:
“Student Debt Slows Growth as Young Spend Less,” by Annie Lowrey
“When Class Became More Important to a Child's Education Than Race,” by Sarah Garland:
“RIP, American Dream? Why It's So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today,” by Matthew O’Brien:
PROBLEMS INVOLVING SLEEP & PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS:
“Keith Conners, Father of ADHD, Regrets its Current Misuse” by Allen Frances
“Making Sleep a Childhood Priority (or Not),” by KJ Dell’Antonia:
“Why Stanford is Training Teens to Preach the Importance of Sleep” by Nathania Johnson
“Lack of sleep blights pupils' education,” by Sean Coughlan:
“Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit,” by Vatsal G. Thakkar
“ADHD or Sleep Disorder: Are We Getting It Wrong?” by Dr. Michael J. Breus:
ENDNOTE:
Most of these sources were originally compiled by Andrew Golden and contained in his “Writing to Synthesize Ideas Assignment Sheet” available on the FIU Professional Development website.
Golden, Andrew. “Writing to Synthesize Ideas Assignment Sheet.” FIU Professional
Development. N.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.