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Is Social Media Killing?

Social media are computer tools that allow people to share or exchange information, connect people easily, make things easier, or even motivate someone. Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s lifestyles. This has been an important part of one’s life. It seems like one would be left behind if one didn't have one of the many social media platforms. According to a recent We Are Social and Hootsuite report, the number of social media users worldwide reached 4.76 billion in January 2023. This figure is equivalent to 59.4% of the total world population today. It can be seen that social media is needed in various fields. For example, in marketing. The impact of social media is huge because it provides various information quickly so that people will quickly find out if there is a well-known brand that makes a new clothing design, or even food that becomes one of the trends that must be tried. Similarly, in society, social media introduces people to communities or small gr

Article Review: "Promoting students’ critical thinking through online learning in higher education: Challenges and strategies" by Tathahira Tathahira

  Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana NIM: 2223210056 Class: 4-B This article discusses the demanding situations and techniques for enforcing learners' important wondering via online learning. briefly, the findings display that online gaining knowledge can be suitable assist for college students to enhance their crucial questioning ability. The well-designed online discussion (interactivity), critical-thinking studying content, and well-maintained instructions are numerous factors needed by online course instructors in order to improve their student's critical thinking. Introduction Critical thinking and technology are the two maximum outstanding elements grounded in the latest globalized academic surroundings. The use of generation-like online learning in the mastering process for better education must foster usefulness for learners, inclusive of selling college students essential thinking. but, this phenomenon creates challenges for educational practitioners to bring critic

The Significance of Knowing a Foreign Language

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In an increasingly interconnected world, the importance of knowing a foreign language cannot be overstated. As globalization continues to form our society, individuals who possess the ability to communicate in multiple languages gain a significant advantage. Beyond the obvious benefits of enhanced communication and cultural understanding, knowing a foreign language opens up a multitude of opportunities, both personally and professionally. This essay will the diverse methods in which knowing a foreign language holds immense importance and why it is a valuable skill in today's world. Knowing a foreign language provides individuals with the means to connect with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Language is a powerful tool for communication, allowing individuals to bridge cultural gaps and foster deeper connections. By learning a foreign language, one gains insights into the values, customs, and traditions of another culture. This understanding promotes empathy and fac

SUMMARY BOOK 3 || Considering your argument: working out your ‘story’ and getting your central idea

       Developing an argument is one of the important elements of shaping writing skills. Shaping and developing the argument makes your writing more analytical and different than others. If an argument can be explained technically, then the author can continue his exploration in the next chapter. Here, the emphasis is on establishing our main topic and organizing our work around it. It can start with building your central idea step by step. The first sentence is the central idea or we can call that the ‘topic sentence’. It contains a statement about the argument that will be discussed. In the next sentence, we can give an explanation of the first statement concerning the argument that will discuss. After that, add an example of the explanation. In the end, you can add a conclusion or summary of the argument. Then try to construct your ‘story’ using a list of notions to create the plot of your story-argument helps you to elaborate your argument deeply and structurally. Your writing

Organizing and Shaping Your Writing | SUMMARY BOOK "Writing at University"

Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana Class: 4B There is not just one way to organize a piece of writing. Each person has their process of writing. Writers need different strategies for the various writing that is done. Every writer is different, but their goal is the same: to get good writing. Therefore, they try different strategies to deal with the problem flexibly. Following the advice of others roughly becomes one of the important things because it can help the thought process when writing. Often there are some points in writing that are questioned by the author, but it turns out that most writers find that when they change their writing strategy. The structure of writing establishes a relationship between different ideas, looking at a work from different points of view we can see the different types of structures that authors are used to. There are several types of structures –the way writing is organized and functions - that are used in Writing at University. 1. Chronology Writing
Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana Class: 4B NIM: 2223210056 Last week, I made a summary of Writing at University and it turns out that writing is not just conveying ideas, ideas to be used as paragraphs. But, the need for us to seek understanding about it, then process it using positive thoughts, then convey it in words. Reading is the most basic thing to write. Reading is also a way to improve critical thinking. The ability to write is also needed by everyone. One of them, students to make the final project as a condition of graduation. If a student does not prepare the ability to read, write, and think from the first, then the likelihood that they will fail is very high. Through critical reading and critical thinking we can more easily create critical writing. Critical writing is different from descriptive writing, it is more scientific and has a lot of evidence. The first thing you should do is identify the problem or topic significantly. Choose the best topics that are releva
  Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana NIM: 2223210056 Class: 4B   Reading as part of writing      Reading is an integral part of the whole writing process, and therefore this chapter is concerned with helping you to discover new ways of tackling the reading that you have to do for your studies. One of the techniques of writing successfully in an academic environment is to be able to integrate the important points of what you have read into your own writing. To do this it is necessary to have a clear picture of what you have read, and this in itself entails active and focused reading. The tasks in this chapter will help you to work on making the best use of your reading, through examining different ways that you – the reader – can approach written texts. This is an important point to remember. Just as we have described and talked about different ways of writing, so we also want to introduce you to different ways of reading.   ·        Aproaching reading With academic reading