My Essay General Outline---Sophie

The impetus for technology and innovation, esp.development of the new mass media, whether influence on the growth of juvenile or not?


A. INTRODUCTION

--general backgrounds: technology development&the lifestyle of human beings

--specific range: new mass media influence on the younger generation via...

--my whole essay structure what I will discuss step by step

--the thesis about this topic


B. BODY PARTS

--The arguments for: TV will benefit the adolescents

1.Money: save the costs instead of buying expensive theatre and cinema tickets,
"civilian pleasure"

2.Knowledge&Information: broaden one's horizon, open one's mind; understanding the colourful and different cultures, religious and communities; knowing the worldwide news quickly

3.Entertainment: relax from the day-pressure of school; fun and leisure from the programmes

4.Family Union: promote the members of the whole family who rarely met in the fast tempo life to sit together and watch their favourite moving pictures

5.Specific cases or examples

--The arguments against: adverse effect on growth of youngest

1.physical/lifestyle: addiction of TV -"couch potatoes", obesity; bad eye-sights

2.phycological/spiritural: companionless; depression; self-centered, egoistic...

3.time: life is too short to be waste, esp.the golden-ages of youth

4.false value & peer pressure: "visual images" -incorrect recognition and judgement of the society and the world; lack abilities of cooperation and competition; bad habits -fail in study; imitate the actions of violence and pornography -crime...

5.specific examples or statistics


C. CONCLUSION:

--comparison & contrast the above two sides

--summarise

--the thesis of the whole essay (paraphrase the thesis of the introduction)

--my point of views

--the solutions to tackle the widespread phenomena of kids addicting TV box

--suggestion & implication


References:
1.Book:"Television: Its Impact on
School Children" BY ELEANOR E. MACCOBY
2."Do We Fatten Our Children at the Television Set? Obesity and Television Viewing in Children and Adolescents" by William H. Dietz Jr MD, PhD1, Steven L. Gortmaker PhD1. PEDIATRICS Vol. 75 No. 5 May 1985, pp. 807-812
3."'Long-term harm' of too much TV for toddlers".http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8654963.stm
4.[BOOK] "Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: from Muppet Babies to Teenage" Mutant Ninja TurtlesM Kinder - 1993