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  • Now, let's try another question.

  • So if I remove this, Okay, so this essay question reads, technology has made people even Maur anti social.

  • Do you agree?

  • Now, when we read this question, um, it's suggesting that because of computers because of mobile phones because of all forms of technology, people have, uh, who's stopped communicating as openly with others, and it's asking us to take a position on it.

  • Do you agree?

  • So the first thing we need to do is come up with some ideas that both support and refute, uh, this statement and then look at them and see which one would be an easier stance to take in writing an essay.

  • So some obvious things to support this would be the idea.

  • I guess that S o people are now spending any more time using their computer.

  • More time on the Internet, more time playing video games.

  • So perhaps we could say the Internet video games and for the interview games.

  • TV watching etcetera encourages people to spend their time in isolation in isolation, being alone, to spend the time in isolation, interacting with a machine.

  • So when we think of someone who's on the Internet they may be.

  • We imagine someone who is not necessarily communicating with people, but, uh, just sort of doing their own thing.

  • So this idea would support, uh, the argument that technology has made people even Maur anti social.

  • Now, on the refute side of it, if we think about technology, Well, in some ways, yes, it has caused people to spend more time in front of a computer.

  • But it is also opened up another ah whole number of other avenues for people to communicate through.

  • So, uh, something that would refute this argument perhaps, would be thes new technologies that have that have helped people to communicate.

  • So you could say something like a lot of technology actually encourages people to interact with others.

  • So, for example, like mobile phones, mobile phones or, um, Facebook or networking websites like Facebook.

  • So instead of being alone and experiencing technology by yourself, and it forces you to kind of retract from communicating with other, that is that Well, perhaps technology is actually encouraging people to interact with other people.

  • Now, another side that could help a support refute statement would be, perhaps that technology has not made people Maur.

  • I'm sorry to energy technologies.

  • Not many people, uh, less able to communicate with others.

  • But just perhaps, that they're communicating in different ways.

  • So when you can not a traditional means of communication, for example, face to face, this is a new way to communicate with people.

  • So perhaps people are not MME.

  • Or anti social.

  • They're just communicating in different ways.

  • So maybe as an example, eso, instead of meeting a person face to face if you're in the office instead of walking down the hole and meeting them while you're just going to send them an instant message instead.

  • So instead of meeting face to face in the office, instant messaging can be used.

  • Now we've come up with some ideas that support the idea that technology has made people even more anti social and some ideas that refuted.

  • And when we look at this, we can see what we have to ideas that refute and one that supports.

  • So I suppose that the easiest, uh, essay to write would be a refute essay.

  • So now that now that we've decided to write a refuted say, well, then we take on the task of writing a thesis that directly responds to this essay.

  • Question reads.

  • Technology has made people even Maur antisocial.

  • Do you agree now to refute this, we could write as our thesis.

  • Uh, perhaps it's is reputed that technology has made people even Maur anti social.

  • And as I pointed out in the essay question that we we worked on before this one, the If we look at this thesis, this thesis directly answers our essay question.

  • I've actually pulled words out of the essay question and put them into our thesis.

  • So technology has made people even Maur anti social, Do you agree?

  • And then, in our thesis, we wrote it is refuted that technology has made people even Maur antisocial.

  • So when the s a reader reads our essay, they can directly address a question.

  • There is no confusion at old what point of view we're taking.

  • So that concludes our short lesson on how to rights and arguments s a thesis.

Now, let's try another question.

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