...Stephanie Esquivel Susan Cooper English 101 5 Oct. 2015 Multitasking In a generation where multitasking has become a part of our lives, I like many others have become drawn to that lifestyle. These days it’s rare to find someone who does not multitask and isn’t able to multitask very well. Multitasking for me is helpful when the amount of work I need to get done increases. From being in school full time and also having to run a house it takes much of my time and being able to multitask effectively makes my day easier. I think multitasking is great when it comes naturally, for some it might even be an advantage. Although some might believe that splitting your attention into different jobs causes work quality, I think it all depends on the task and what requires more attention. For me it’s all about time management and how my day is split and what my priorities are. I’m married and although school is important my husband comes first. Before it was so much easier to get home, eat a hot pocket and wait till my mom got home to cook but that’s not my life anymore and I get home to do what she did and what everyone takes for granted. My multitasking is caused by my busy schedule and the thing I most want to get to at the end of the day is my family and for that reason it’s just easier for me to get multiple things done at once. Multitasking at home means I can get more things done at a certain amount...
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...Teachers find that there’s a problem with the texting lingo and grammatical errors when it comes to English writing some teens have major errors incorrect capitalization or punctuation in the use of symbols rather than words are just a few errors instructor stumble upon when creating and observing their students papers. Cyber slang is suspected of damaging teens writing style. Cyber slang is a term that references shortcuts, altercations, abbreviated words and emojis ( small pictures that show the teens thoughts or feelings). Some of the more popular cyber slang terms that can be heard at least once a week and normal conversations are LOL (laugh out loud) WTF (what the f**k) and BFF (best friend forever). "I think it makes sense for these social conversations to be […] But ultimately, in the world of business and in the world they will live in, in terms of their jobs, students will need good, solid reading and writing skills. I’m a little worried about where we are in America with literacy levels dropping.”(Shravan...
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...Though rarely mentioned or discussed, multitasking effects people of all ages in one way or another. Whether it’s doing schoolwork while watching tv, or skyping someone while in line at the bank, modern society and technology allow user to do virtually anything they want at any time. This immediately raises the question, “just because you can, should you?” All of my research done so far has been in an attempt to find an answer to this question in regards to multitasking in everyday life. Every article I have found seems to have something different, and often contradictory, to say about multitasking. Of the sources I have found so far, the most substantial and concrete of those have all had similar views on multitasking. As of now, I am aware...
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...Alexandra Saunders MAO 203 Multitasking Skills and knowledge Multitasking Skills and knowledge Alex Saunders MOA 203 April 15, 2016 Multitasking Have you ever heard of multitasking and what it is? Well today we will look at the positive and the negative side of it. Multitasking means ability to complete more than one task at the time with the best ability you can. An average person multitasks every day without even knowing. I am sure that as you are reading this paper you have some apps or tabs open on your computer or even possibly have a phone next to you that just can’t stop buzzing, that is an example of multitasking with everyday tasks and challenges that come our way. Did you know that many professions use multitasking and able to handle it with extremely important documents. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, ”You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain”. (Bradberry, 2014) No worries, practice makes it perfect, at least that’s what we were thought since young age. Most research on multitasking tell us that is ineffective. Often switching between two tasks divides our focus and depletes our mental resources quicker. This leads to a greater risk of making a mistake and less quality work overall. Multitasking is especially ineffective if we are juggling between tasks that use up very similar resources in our brain. However, there is a certain kind of multitasking called task-layering that...
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...RAEBURN: Now, I'm betting you have a real reason, besides the fact that we can barely understand what he says sometimes, for saying that he's - wouldn't be very good at GPS. But before you answer that, let me just remind people I'm Paul Raeburn. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. All right… Dr. NASS: Okay… RAEBURN: …so why would Dylan be a bad idea? Dr. NASS: The problem is that our brains are built that when we hear a voice, we associate with that voice - especially if it's a person's voice we know - all the characteristics and benefits and negatives associated with that voice. Now when it comes to navigation, we want someone who's known as being very precise, who's careful, who is alert and attentive to detail, and that's certainly not the image that Bob Dylan portrays. So generally, in fact, the idea of using famous people - unless those people are famous for exactly the things we would want in a GPS. So, if anyone knew what Hiawatha's voice sounded like… (Soundbite of laughter) Dr. NASS: …that would be a great voice for a GPS. But Bob Dylan is best served in other ways. RAEBURN: Now, tell us just a little bit more about - just briefly tick off a few of the other things you've done in machine-human communications. Then, we can talk about one or two. Dr. NASS: Well, we have a lot of recent work in the car space, having to do, for example, showing that the voice in the car as being about Bob Dylan. But for happy drivers, they drive much better with the happy voice...
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...couple of years. Many college students spend late nights binging on their favorite television shows. There has not been much research done, on the effects that Netflix has on students, specifically those in college. Although, there have been several studies done on the effects media has on secondary students, as well as college students. Our study will try to determine whether watching Netflix while doing schoolwork will effect the efficiency, and accuracy of the task given to them. In order to get a better understanding of what we might expect from our study, we chose to analyze five studies that discuss media and technology in regards to secondary and college students. Watching Netflix, and working on homework is an example of multitasking. Multitasking is simply splitting attention, between two or more items. How can multitasking affect the everyday student? We believe that all media and technology can affect a student while he or she is trying to complete homework outside of the classroom. The studies below discuss data based on students multitasking with media and technology....
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...while driving.All of us people love our phones and always want to have them everywhere we go and that can be a problem sometimes. Disadvantages about texting and driving.Based on my research on (It Still Runs).Another one is that everyone thinks that they can multitask and so it at the same time as they are driving. Most people use it at the wrong time and then that’s where all the distraction happens and it does not go well. Thousands of deaths and fatalities are caused while driving.About 200,000 accidents are due to texting and driving. On this site (Economics Blog). This site says that phones should only be used in case of an emergency or if it’s something important. There have been lots of losses in families and friends, that’s why phones should not be permitted in cars. In conclusion This is what I think of when it comes to disadvantages while driving. Advantages while driving. I found this on (advantage tech)This site states that texting while driving can be good in some cases. For example if your mom is texting you, it must be something important so you must look at your phone and answer her. I used the counterclaim paper that we did in class. This paper helped me because it is related to my topic and it helped me for the explanation. In conclusion, these are the advantages of texting and driving. Critics argue that we should text while...
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...can do. I like the introduction technique with the hypothetical questions. However, you now need to transition into your thesis or central claim, and that central claim needs to come here, at the end of the intro paragraph. Ninety percent of car accidents are caused by human error – driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, speeding recklessly, changing lanes without signaling, passing through red lines, and probably most known of all: distracted driving OK, first of all, don’t begin body paragraphs with statistics. Rarely should you do this. Instead, remember that I want your body paragraphs to begins with subclaims. Secondly, where did you get this statistic? This is not a research paper (you’ll be taught proper research in Composition II). For now, we want you to avoid research sources except your interviews. . Distracted Driving is dangerous and can kill you and those people around you.—THIS is a subclaim. The problem is, it needs to be backed up by the kind of evidence we’ve been talking about in this class—personal evidence and evidence from your interviews. It involves texting and driving, listening to music, having a conversation to someone in the passenger seat and eating while driving. A lot of people drive while they talk on their phone and even texting on their phone,...
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...Denise the author of the book Doing School has three main claims about multitasking, cheating, and scheming. The author has selected multitasking as one of her claims because she took the time to research and find what were the success of these students, and what they used to complete their year. Students had practiced how making schools management through their experience, and the workload they had received made them to find a way to complete their work on time. Of course cheating was another way to complete their work by copying off of other students from the same class. Above all, scheming was a way to obtain higher grades by changing answers when correcting your assignment or test; it resulted a lower grade to a higher grade. After all...
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...more choices and people can watch shows and movies whenever they want. Today, most television channels have shows that are either broadcasted live or filmed. Filmed shows are where actors and producers spend at least 12 to 13 hours a day depending how long the show is. When producers film TV shows, they edit the shows to perfection, which means there is no mistakes. However, when celebrities or anyone that is broadcasted live, anything could happen. One of the greatest parts about Internet is that if you've missed a show on television, you could always watch it the next day online. Now, people must wonder how we can live without the Internet. It's impossible. The Internet is a daily use to mostly everyone in the world. You could also multitask when you're using the Internet. For an example, you could be watching an episode while checking your emails. Usually on television, you could only watch one show at a time. On the Internet, you could always watch previous shows or watch an episode as many times as you want. Plus, one of the benefits of online shows is that there are fewer commercials. People have always complained about them because commercials usually last about 2 to 5 minutes long. Instead, on the Internet, you could either skip the commercial...
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...The patterns I am using help me to feel safe and secure after I finish my work. Basically I am safe using these patterns because they help me to submit work that I am proud of. The only Pattern that I Avoid is Confluence. I don’t like to use my Confluence because I am not a risk taker. I must research my information and give accurate details in order to support my answers. In some other cases I need to tether my Technical Reasoning because I don’t like short but brief answers. I like to get the full picture so I don’t miss anything. In this course we learned the Learning Patterns of the Let Me Learn System. We know now after taking this course that Let Me Learn System will be of the greatest importance for you in the next upcoming years of your college experience. The Let Me Learn System is one model for Intentional Learning. Intentional learning requires us to know what we need to get the information for our courses. Intentional learning also requires us to know what distracts us from being able to learn. I know I have a tight schedule with my job, school and 6 kids. One thing you will learn from this course is that is does not benefit a person to multitask. Multitask actually makes a person less productive. I learned in...
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...Marketing Research and Promotional Message Becky Waldron PSY322 January 15, 2013 Vincent Bonina Marketing Research and Promotional Message Although still widely overlooked, women make up the majority of consumer purchases not only in the United States but worldwide. Studies show that women make 80% of the purchases in the United States, which amounts to $7 trillion dollars a year. When the marketing plan is focused at women, research needs to be current and ongoing, through surveys, and market statistics. When expanding the marketing message to include women or focus on women, focus on the following questions: what are women’s needs, perceptions and attitudes? How may these be used to create a marketing message? The traditional role of a woman in business and the household has changed dramatically over the past forty years. Therefore, so have needs, perceptions and attitudes of today women. The women of today are liberated worldwide more than ever before. Women around the world now have more life options, control of their lives more and this trend is expected to grow exponentially. More women are entering the workplace, resulting in women delaying marriage. These women have decided to continue their education and boosting their careers by making it the focus. Today’s workplace women are also putting of having children until they are in their thirties and forty’s, if they chose to have children at all. Generation Y has a renewed outlook on motherhood. Women...
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...http://nottinghamtrent.academia.edu/MarkGriffiths/Papers/864659/Kuss_D.J._and_Griffiths_M.D._2011_._Addiction_to_social_networks_on_the_internet_A_literature_r eview_of_empirical_research._International_Journal_of_Environment_and_Public_Health_8_35 28-3552 http://www.scribd.com/doc/28373423/Social-Networking-and-Its-Impact-on-Filipino-Youth-Dr-Lenardo-R-Garcia-Jr-CPM http://es.scribd.com/mam0n/d/28919575-SOCIAL-NETWORKING-SITES-AFFECT-ONE%E2%80%99S-ACADEMIC-PERFORMANCE-ADVERSELY http://www.mendeley.com/research/university-students-academic-performance-an-integrative-conceptual-framework-and-empirical-analysis/ Abstract BACKGROUND: The prediction and explanation of academic performance and the investigation of the factors relating to the academic success and persistence of students are topics of utmost importance in higher education. AIMS: The main aim of the present study is to develop and test a conceptual framework in a university context, where the effects of achievement goals, self-efficacy and class size on academic performance are hypothesized to be direct and indirect through study strategies. SAMPLE: Participants were 100 third year nursing students of UNIVERSITY OF PANGASINAN- PEN s.y 2012- 2013. METHOD: Pre-existing scales were used to develop the questionnaire. Questionnaires were group-administered in 3 classes during the first 2 weeks of September (i.e. about 1 month before the final examination). At the end of the academic year, students' grades...
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...Diversity in Solantic Walk In Urgent Care Introduction: My chosen organization will be Solantic Urgent Care. Solantic Urgent Care is a healthcare service provider company. The company operates walk in urgent care centers in the United States. Solantic Corporation offers urgent care services for respiratory illness, headaches, sore throats, sprains or fractures, cold or flu symptoms, burns, cuts, ear and eye infections, pulled or strained muscles, coughs, childhood illnesses and physicals, including school or sports, pre-op and basic check- ups. I will be the office manager. Solantic walk-in urgent care was founded in Jacksonville, Florida in 2001. The founder's mission was to fill in the gap between primary physician care and emergency room services with convenient, fair priced urgent care. They want to be a different kind of healthcare provider, for a different kind of experience. Applying industry best practices with lessons learned from some of the country's most successful retailers; they developed the Solantic healthcare model. Derived from "South on the Atlantic," the Solantic name has become synonymous with convenient, fairly priced healthcare in Florida. From day one, Solantic has offered complete pricing transparency with all prices set forth on a Starbucks-style menu board for all to see. Since opening its first four centers in 2002 in North Florida, Solantic is now one of the fastest-growing healthcare providers in Florida, with more than 30 centers located...
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