Based on the readings from this casebook, select one of the following writing prompts for your essay. Make sure you prepare your essay in MLA format including: a heading, a title, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page with a minimum of three sources. Refer to Bedford Researcher Chapter 21 for MLA Style and p357-361 for a sample paper.

Once you have completed a draft of your essay, post it to the Discussion page for Peer Evaluation as well as to this Assignment page

1. Choose two essays from this casebook that offer conflicting ideas about the meaning of the digital age. First, write a paragraph or two about the particular ways they conflict about particular questions or technologies. Then, find three or four more sources that offer arguments or analysis of these same questions or technologies. Once you have read your sources thoroughly, write your own essay, making an argument about the topic.
2. Identify a particular technology from any era (for example, the printing press, the book, the telegram, Twitter, or Google Books) and conduct some research on its origin and development. Use newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, and academic journals to learn as much as you can about this technology. Then use at least two essays in this casebook to help you frame an argument about how it changes (or changed) the lives of the people who use (or used) it.

Here is the 7 cases that you need to choose ( Pick 2 that has conflict):

1. Gleick: Meme Pool
2. Freidman: From 1890: The First Text Message
3. Clinton: Internet Rights and Wrongs
4. Thompson I’m So Totally, Digitally, Close to You
5. Rosen The End of Forgetting
6. Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
7. Turkle Connectivity and Its Discontents

Number of sources: Book ( Fields of Readings: Motives for Writing, 10th edition, Nancy Comley )