Great work in class today! I think we were truly looking at the multiple meanings of our writing. Please post your rewritten sentences here as blog comments and not as blog posts. Great work today! Think about what your classmates are trying to say in each of these sentences. How can you restate these sentences in a manner that is more concise? Do you think it's important to rethink your classmates' tone? Why? Why not?
Here is the list of sentences we read in class.
1. Under situations like these, the author does not realize that his or her information is wrong…instead, he or she believes that whatever he or she is writing is factual and true, for whatever the reason.
2.The major consequences are not only does it take away from traditional dating but we never really know who we are talking to online.
3. Age, gender, sexual orientation, birth place, languages spoken, phone numbers, even area which they are living at.
4.There are definitely much more important things we can be doing besides being noisy and looking at peoples’ pages.
5. However times have changed, technology has advanced and the youth of this generation found a new way to bully by using social networks, cellphones or any other electronic device to harm those they do not like in this generation basic bullying has morphed into cyberbullying but who is at blame and what can we do to stop it.
6. With the incredible use of technology our world today have shape into a more of a message saturated world meaning a world being dominated by technology which is changing the way we communicate by sending, receiving and interpreting messages we encounter every day in our lives.
7. Although visual literacy is a good skill to comprehend, focusing on only the visual will have its backfire.
8. Since many children don't tell anyone about the bullying they experience, it is easy to see some of the negative impact that social media has had on our youth especially.
