Spring 2021–ETRB[13433]
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Introduction
Hook: Many people use mobile phones to enrich their lives. However, mobile phones also bring many negative effects to people like nomophobia. What is “nomophobia”?
Problem/Debate: How common is nomophobia in college students? How nomophobia affects people? How to overcome nomophobia?
Thesis Statement: Nomophobia is common for people and it has many effects on people.
Body Paragraph
Subargument # 1: What is nomophobia?
Subargument # 2: Nomophobia is very common for people?
Subargument # 3: How nomophobia Affects the people.
Subargument # 4: How to fight against or treat nomophobia.
Conclusion
References:
Cherry, K. (n.d.). Do you have nomophobia, or a fear of being without your phone? Retrieved March 30, 2021, from https://www.verywellmind.com/nomophobia-the-fear-of-being-without-your-phone-4781725
Agbani, K. [Dr. K Agbani : Health And Happiness]. (2020, October 5). Nomophobia, It’s causes , Symptoms and how to control it? [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsB5GJRm5k
Jilisha, G., Venkatachalam, J., Menon, V., & Olickal, J. J. (2019). Nomophobia: A MIXED-METHODS study On PREVALENCE, Associated factors, and perception among college students in PUDUCHERRY, INDIA. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 41(6), 541-548. doi:10.4103/ijpsym.ijpsym_130_19. Retrieved from https://go-gale-com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=cuny_baruch&id=GALE|A605569991&v=2.1&it=r
Elmore, T. (2014, September 18). Nomophobia: A rising trend in students. Retrieved March 30, 2021, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/artificial-maturity/201409/nomophobia-rising-trend-in-students
Banerjee, K. (2021, January 03). What is Nomophobia? 99% of people in Australia suffer from Weird ‘disorder’. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://www.ibtimes.sg/what-nomophobia-99-people-australia-suffer-weird-disorder-54620
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. (2020, August 27). Study finds ‘nomophobia’ is associated with poor sleep health in college students. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 10, 2021 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200827102142.htm
CSPONLINE. (2019, June 04). Nomophobia: Technology and mental HEALTH: CSP ONLINE. Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://online.csp.edu/blog/psychology/nomophobia-technology-and-mental-health/
Nomophobia: Technology and mental HEALTH: CSP ONLINE. (2019, June 04). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://online.csp.edu/blog/psychology/nomophobia-technology-and-mental-health/
Cole, L. (2020, August 28). What is nomophobia? Am I addicted to My Phone?: Mentalup. Retrieved March 05, 2021, from https://www.mentalup.co/blog/phone-addiction
MacKay, J. (2017, December 07). 5 ways to fight NOMOPHOBIA: The fear of not having your phone – RescueTime. Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://blog.rescuetime.com/nomophobia/
Organized Audrey. (2019, September 19). Nomophobia – how to cut your dependence on your smartphone. Retrieved March 30, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-OoWXAbGKo
Gupta, A. (2021, February 24). How to deal with nomophobia? Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://tweaklibrary.com/how-to-deal-with-nomophobia/
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One reason that Scorsese thought Marvel movies are not cinemas is due to his definition of cinema. He said, “And that was the key for us: it was an art form. There was some debate about that at the time, so we stood up for cinema as an equal to literature or music or dance. ” (Scorsese, 2019) He thought cinema is an art form and Marvel is not an art. However, Eric Kohn said that the definition of cinema needs to take revise. He stated that” To that end, we may have reached a breaking point, in which the obvious definition of cinema requires a revision. Marvel movies are a certain kind of cinema, but they exist in a different category altogether from the ones that other filmmakers consider their vocation. And that means there is zero sense in asking filmmakers from that other, non-Marvel category to assess Marvel movies in any way that might reflect back on their own work.” (Kohn, 2019, October 23). As time goes by, the definition of cinema needs to change. Marvel movies, as a new form of movies, should be included in cinema like Eric said.
Another reason why Scorsese believed that Marvel movies are not movies is because he believed that Marvel movies lack emotion with the audience. In the article, he said, “Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures. What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk. The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes.” However, Marvel Movies has convey emotional. Aubreyonna Van Hoose said, “Many heroes face internal conflict like Bruce Banner’s inability to unleash Hulk during Avengers: Infinity War, or Spider-Man’s internal conflict with the unwillingness to accept his new responsibility as a superhero in “Spider Man: Far From Home.” All of these are clear indications of creating a form of communication of emotional or psychological experiences from the character to the viewer.” (Aubreyonna Van Hoose, 2021, February 25). Aubreyonna Van Hoose used real examples from Marvel movies proved that there are emotion conveying in Marvel movies instead of what Scorsese said. Those so-called heroes are actually no different from us. They will also express their emotions. They smile because they protect the people they cherish, they feel anger when they when they have conflicts, and they feel and cry sad because their companions leave. These scenes are delivered to our audience through the screen and let us know that they have the same emotions as the people in the realities like us. They are not an omnipotent “superman” and they are not without emotions. I still remember that when I watched Avengers: Endgame, Iron Man said to Thanos, “And I am Iron Man”. and “Pepper Potts said “I love you three thousand times.” to Iron Man, who sacrificed himself in the final of the film, I shed tears. There is no doubt that I was moved by the emotion that the movie brought.
Link 1: Kohn, E. (2019, October 23). Marvel movies VS. Cinema: WHY Martin Scorsese and others should sit out this debate. Retrieved April 04, 2021, from https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/scorsese-marvel-movies-vs-cinema-debate-1202183984/#!
Link 2: Aubreyonna Van Hoose | Pulse Reporter. (2021, February 25). Are marvel movies real cinema? Retrieved April 04, 2021, from https://www.bgfalconmedia.com/entertainment/are-marvel-movies-real-cinema/article_7b45b71c-f0f8-11e9-af58-dbb5430acccb.html
Topic: Nomophobia: How common is nomophobia in college students? How nomophobia affects people? How to overcome nomophobia?
Synthesis Letter:
Dear Professor Beacher,
In the entire source of annotated bibliographic entries, I have obtained, I have found many resources that are useful. I pick some sources that are more useful and revialiable to use as my entries. These sources focus on different research questions I choose and all the entries are connected someway. These give the main idea that nomophobia is common in college students and it has a great effect on college students. All entries are as progressive as the research questions I put forward. Knowing them can help the audiences to know what is nomophobia, how serious it is and let them concern their mental health.
Jilisha, Menon and Olickal (2019) mentioned that nomophobia is common in college students through experiments, which contains a lot of data. For example, more than half of the participants in the experiment spend a lot of time using smartphones every day. Most of them use mobile phones during leisure time and while sleeping. Nearly 40% of the participants said that using smartphones hindered learning. More than half of the participants said that they would check their smartphones immediately after waking up in the morning. Then, Cole, L. (2020, August 28) demonstrated the influence of nomophobia on people. She said that nomophobia can cause many symptoms like anxiety, respiratory alterations, trembling. After that, MacKay, J. (2017, December 07) talked about how to fight nomophobia like deleting unnecessary apps and separating them from mobile phones. Finally, Agbani, K. (2020, October 5) posted his video on YouTube explaining what nomophobia is, how common it is for people, the signs and symptoms of nomophobia and how to treat nomophobia. This is equivalent to putting three research questions They answered together.
I believe that the information I learned will surely help me to deal with the problem of my topic. Now that I have more knowledge in nomophobia about how common nomophobia is in college students, the effect of nomophobia, and how to overcome nomophobia. This will help me explain and show the topic better and more clearly to the audiences, that is, the college students. I believe that the best way to achieve my goals is to make my articles as much as clear, and easy to understand and straightforward. Make the audience understand what I’m saying because there may be some audiences who have never heard of nomophobia and do not know what nomophobia is. I will clearly state my argument, use simple words, and try to avoid situations that the audience cannot understand.
The knowledge I have learned will provide a “question and answer” for the questions I am researching, and it will fill in the knowledge gaps about the question. The research questions will be the questions asking while the sources I found and chose will be the answers of the research questions. These research questions are connection-like steps, and different sources have different focuses. So, I must combine all the information to answer these research questions completely and all sources will be the argument of my article.
Sincerely,
Zaining Sun
Topic: I am researching how social media affects people’s mental health. I think this topic is important because many people have many psychological problems because of the use of social media. I want others to know and understand it.
Research Questions:
[We talked about this over email, but I think nomophobia and social media addiction are two different things. They may be connected, but that is something that you’ll have to research to find out.]
Entry 1
Reference Entry
Jilisha, G., Venkatachalam, J., Menon, V., & Olickal, J. J. (2019). Nomophobia: A MIXED-METHODS study On PREVALENCE, Associated factors, and perception among college students in PUDUCHERRY, INDIA. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 41(6), 541-548. doi:10.4103/ijpsym.ijpsym_130_19.
Interesting Quotes and Paraphrases of Key Points
➢ According to Jilisha, Menon and Olickal (2019), “A sizable minority of the students had signs of severe nomophobia, distinct patterns of usage, and misperceptions regarding health and their usage pattern.”
➢I want to paraphrase the next paragraph because it shows the result of experiment that how dependent the participants are on the smartphones. Thirty forms were found to be incomplete. Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants are depicted in [Table 1]. Duration of smartphone usage was found to be 3-6 hours in nearly half of the participants (52.1%), and 19% of the participants even reported using their smartphone for 7 hours and more per day. Nearly half of the participants (48.6%) checked their phones at least 4-6 times per hour. Social networking and music were found to be the most used utilities in smartphones, with an almost equal proportion of the participants reporting it as the purpose of maximum usage (20% and 22%, respectively). Smartphone use was found to be maximum during leisure time (46.6%), followed by the time before sleeping (31.7%). Around 65% of the students admitted that they sometimes check their smartphones without any particular reason. Half of the participants (51.5%) reported that others have told them that they were using their smartphones too much. Nearly 38% felt that their smartphone use was hampering their academic performance, and 55% said that they check their smartphones as soon as they get up in the morning. Out of 774 responses from participants, the highest proportion of perceived ill health effect due to smartphone use was reported for headache (23.6%), followed by eye strain (21.8%). No perceived ill health was reported by 106 respondents [Table 2].{Table 1}{Table 2} (Jilisha, Menon and Olickal (2019).
Summary
Jilisha, Menon, and Olickal (2019) illustrate the key point that young people have nomophobia. They proved this point through experiments. According to the experiment, more than 20% of the participants [Who were the participants?] have severe nomophobia. More than half of the participants in the experiment spend a lot of time using smartphones every day. Most of them use mobile phones during leisure time and while sleeping. [Do you mean while they should be sleeping?] Nearly 40% of the participants said that using smartphones hindered learning. More than half of the participants said that they would check their smartphones immediately after waking up in the morning. At the same time, nearly half of the participants said that using smartphones has an impact on their health. (Jilisha, Menon and Olickal, 2019) Finally, Jilisha, Menon and Olickal (2019) use the research in these research reports as a conclusion, It shows that it is increasingly difficult for young people to distinguish the boundary between normal smartphone use and addiction. Relevant institutions need to take measures to educate about nomophobia. [Did the researchers mention social media, specifically in this article?]
Response/Analysis
From my perspective, it is quite reasonable that nomophobia is very common among the college students. Over time, more and more people can use smartphones, and more and more people suffer from nomophobia. As the experiment shows, there are many college students who use smartphones for a long time every day. I believe that many college students rely on smartphones to varying degrees. They use smartphones to do many things. At first, they may use smartphones only to send messages to their parents or friends. Then, they use smartphones to do something else like play games and watch video. And this is why they slowly began to change from normal use of smartphones to gradually becoming addicted to smartphones, and finally get nomophobia. Some of them will feel uncomfortable without using a smartphone. This can be said to be a phenomenon of nomophobia. What makes matters worse is that the young people like college students often ignore the severity of the effects of nomophobia. Thus, causing serious harm to their body and mind. [I suggest explaining what nomophobia means because not all of your readers will know]
Entry 2
Reference Entry
Cole, L. (2020, August 28). What is nomophobia? Am I addicted to My Phone?: Mentalup. Retrieved March 05, 2021, from https://www.mentalup.co/blog/phone-addiction
Interesting Quotes and Paraphrases of Key Points
➢ According to Cole (2020, August 28), “Nomophobia symptoms can include anxiety, respiratory alterations, trembling, perspiration, agitation, disorientation and tachycardia.”
➢I want to paraphrase the next paragraph because it shows the effect of child and teenagers as they addicted to smartphone.
Kids and teenagers addicted to phones can experience:
Along with other mental and physical problems. As always, one addiction can lead to another. Kids addicted to phones can, later on, pick up a gaming disorder or other addictions as well. Keeping an eye out for teenage cell phone addiction symptoms and interfering when needed has extreme importance to prevent your child from developing nomophobia or phone addiction (Cole (2020, August 28).
Paraphrase of this Quote: Indulging in smartphones can have many effects on children and young people, including physical and psychological aspects. Addiction to smartphones can also make them addicted to other things. It is very important to pay attention to children and teenagers. When they become addicted to smartphones, they should be intervened in time (Cole (2020, August 28).
Summary
Cole (2020, August 28) explained in her article the impact of being addicted to smartphones as a product of mobile technology. The author first defines what is nomophobia, the symptoms of nomophobia, and the definition of mobile phone addiction. Then, the author enumerated the phenomenon and impact of mobile phone addiction. One of the most important is the physical and psychological effects of mobile phone addiction on children and adolescents, such as learning difficulties, lack of concentration and focus, behavioral problems, personality problems and eating disorders. The author says that one type of addiction leads to another type of addiction. If people do not intervene in time, children and teenagers who are addicted to mobile phones are likely to suffer from other addictions. Pay close attention and timely intervention are very important. Cole (2020, August 28) Finally, Cole (2020, August 28) introduces some methods to stop phone addiction to end the article.
Response/Analysis
This article will focus on the impact of mobile phone addiction to people. I believe that many people are addicted to mobile phones to varying degrees. [Remember, in analysis writing we try to avoid agree/disagree statements so that we can be objective] And this makes people suffer from the effects of addiction to mobile phones. Whether it is children, young people, or adults, they are all affected by mobile phone addiction or nomophobia. I firmly agree with the following point: Excessive use of mobile phones will lead to negative effects. I believe that anyone who is addicted to mobile phones or has nomophobia will have different effects. We have to closely observe the relatives or friends around us. It is very important to find out their symptoms in time. Once we find that they have signs of addiction to mobile phones or nomophobia, we should pay close attention to them. Let them know how addiction to mobile phones or nomophobia will affect themselves. And help them get rid of mobile phone addiction or nomophobia.
It looks like you are off to a good start with the sources you have chose. You should be able to construct a solid argument for your essay.
Hi, everyone!
I am very happy to meet you in this class in the new semester. I’ll take a moment to introduce myself.
My name is Sun Zaining. I am 20 years old. I am an international student from China. When I was about seventeen, I chose to study in the United States. I came to the United States to study because I wanted to see the outside world. I have been here for three years now. I am glad that I knew nothing about everything from the beginning, and now I am looking forward to life in university.
In my free time, I like to do yoga to relax myself. Although I don’t know how to do many and difficult moves, I remember an important point, persist. As long as you persist, you can exercise your body in simple movements.
In the end, I am very happy that I was admitted to Baruch College. I hope I can learn new knowledge and meet new friends in the university life of Baruch College.