YU SUN ENGH 121-AC2 The summary draft #1 The name of article is The Myth of Multitasking.

Its written by Christine Rosen. And she is a senior of The New Atlantis and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. According to Rosen said, the main topic of this article is Singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure ones time: it was a mark of intelligence. It talks about the advantages and disadvantages of multitasking, and what its influences in peoples mind. The article describes multitasking by three different sections. The first section includes six different main ideas. And these main ideas introduce the positive and negative effects of multitasking. At first, there are some backgrounds about the content of this article. It's an 18th century British noble though that doing one thing at a time shows great intelligence. Then it introduces and defines the term multitasking. At present, people are so busy that they have a word to describe their way of being busy by multitasking. According to Rosen said, The article offered advice on How to Multitask with suggestions about giving your brains multitasking hot spot an appropriate workout. Multitasking seemed exciting. It's about the positive view of multitasking. After this, the author says there are growing concerns that multitasking may be bad for people. She introduces the reasons for debate, discussion, argument and challenge. And the source that she offers is from the BBC. According to Rosen said, Which might be understood as a subspecies of multitasking: using mobile computing power and the internet, we are

constantly scanning for opportunities and staying on top of contacts, events, and activities in an effort to miss nothing.This evidence is effective and credible. It shows the problems with multitasking. And then she shows the main idea that multitasking is difficult for the brain and its important to do less multitasking. She wants to introduce the reason which people should limit multitasking. And the source she uses is credible and effective. It shows limiting multitasking is essential. Through the last part of the first section of this article, the author Rosen gives another main idea about multitasking also leads to losing money. This main idea introduces how the multitasking is taking a toll on the economy. And she uses some problems of background sources on economy. The topic of section 2 is Changing Our Brains. First of all, Rosen shows the readers the main idea that neurologists and psychologists have studied the working of the brain. The main idea shows the purpose that it tells people how the brain works. And the background sources about the details are credible. Then the author explains that the brain can task-switch more effectively and introduces the optimistic thinking. The sources and details she uses are from the other researchers. Multitasking can adversely affect is one of the main ideas in section 2. She introduces the reasons of this main idea to show readers this purpose. The other two main ideas are the judgment between information is powerful and not. For the idea about information is powerful, she introduces demonstrating people to be more powerful. The introduction for another idea that information is not powerful is letting people know there is thinking opposite the last one. The author uses the arguments of expert as support points. The last section of this article talks about paying attention. At first, a main idea is

about Isaac Newton once said patient attention is important talent. The author Rosen uses a quotation to introduce about the attention. As she said, People who have achieved great things often credit for their success a finely honed skill for paying attention . Then she talks about the varieties of human attention to introduce there are lots of kinds of attention, such as steady attention and mature attention. Some details are the arguments of the expert.

Reference Christine R. (2008). The Myth of Multitasking. The New Atlantis Retrieved November 12th, 2013 from http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking

YU (AC2) Evaluation System 1, 2 = Emerging 3 = Developing/beginning to show criteria 4 = Capable/usually consistent (Passing) 5 = Experienced/effective/consistent 6, 7 = Exceptional/thought-provoking

ENGH 121/ Summary-Analysis

Criteria a. Introduction is logically arranged and contains the article title, the publication, the authors name and credibility information, and the articles main/central idea b. Thesis statement addresses the effectiveness of the authors argument c. Body connects the points logically

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Comments: This is mostly summary, but I see you working toward analysis, which is good. You need to figure out what your thesis is so that you can start analyzing what Rosen is doing in the article. One way to help this is to do an outline and to group ideas together rather than just summarizing each paragraph sequentially. You need to think about the larger

main ideas that Rosen is trying to tell the reader, not just the ideas in each paragraph. Rosen is building an argument step by stepwhat is that argument and is she doing an effective jobthat is your thesis and YOUR argument. You are not supposed to be analyzing the sources themselves; you are supposed to be analyzing what Rosen is doing with her sources. So the focus of the analysis is on Rosens argument, not on the sources she is using. You need to mention the sources to show what Rosen is doing, how she is advancing her argument, and whether the sources are effective for Rosen to persuade the reader. You have a good foundation to add analysis, so focus on that. Whenever you make a point, say why the author (Rosen) may have included itdoes it advance or make her argument more effective? You have some good material to work with and you should be able to add at least another page.