Suggestions [Nava]
I enjoyed first year writing because I was able to write an essay and take my time with it. In the past I have rushed through an essay and created something that was not the best product just to get Continue reading
Author Archives: Nathalie Nava
Thesis Restatement [Nava]
Technology and social media are having dramatic effects on people’s human behavior and mental health. The relationships we obtain with people around us, our own self-worth, and our psychological emotions are all at risk with unsafe technology use.
Frankenstein Feedback [Nava]
In Mina’s essay of Frankenstein she addresses how the creature should not have been abandoned by Victor and how this was the biggest mistake. This shifted my perspective as she had several good counterarguments to my idea that the biggest Continue reading
Prospectus [Nava]
I plan to write my research paper through a psychological view on how technology can effect human behavior, mental health, and cause other psychological issues. Sherry Turkle’s novel Alone Together is based on dozens of interviews revealing how the relationships between Continue reading
Frankenstein Short Thoughts [Nava]
After reading Frankenstein, I see how it is a perfect fit for our class topic of technology and its discontents. Already throughout the first chapters of the novel you can tie in the articles we read by Bill Joy and Continue reading
Long Sentence [Nava]
I grew up in the greatest, loveliest town where the houses were all so familiar and all owned by families everyone knew, there was a sense of safety and familiarity at every corner and none of my friends lived more Continue reading
Rhetorical Analysis Final [Nava]
In the article “Education” by E.B.White, White reasons on why country schools are in several ways superior to city schools. Although both schools essentially gave White’s son the same outcome, there is several factors that White explains displaying how a Continue reading
Technology Final [Nava]
Formative experience with technology: Technology has become a crucial factor in education and something that is almost required for students to be able to access in order to succeed in school. In 2016, after learning about disparities in health care Continue reading
Gibbon Sentence [Nava]
It’s weird looking out at my new “home” because I do not know where anything is. At home I knew every street like the back of my hand. How can I call this place home when I still don’t even Continue reading
This is Water [Nava]
In order to be an effective writer it is important to establish a specific genre by knowing what action you are attempting to accomplish, who the audience is, and the location. In Navigating Genres, Dirk explains how much more a Continue reading