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
Hey Zaining,
I think your main paragraph is about about how nomophobia cann affect someone’s mental health. Some readers may be unaware of what nomophobia is so I would suggest defining it in your letter. Moreover, your entries are really good! They provide a clear analysis of each of them.
Zaining makes it clear that his topic, or main idea, for his essay is nomophobia. The point he wants to address in his essay is shown when he writes how much of an effect nomophobia has, specifically on college students. I do think that your sources connect to your main idea, however, I feel like you can put more analysis in your synthesis letter. I felt like you just explained what each source was but you didn’t show their purpose.