-Brainstorming: generating ideas
-Planning: organizing ideas
-Drafting: writing several versions of the essay
-Editing: Correcting mistakes in content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and mechanics(spelling, punctuation, capitalization)
This week we are going to brainstorm ideas on a new topic:
The Best Source of News
“Due to the development of new technology such as satellite communication and the Internet, we can get updates on the latest breaking stories as soon as they happen. However, some people argue that these sources mainly report unconnected events while newspapers or weekly magazines provide a deeper and contextualized analysis of the news, helping us understand what those events mean.”
What do you think? What is the best source of news (newspaper, cable TV, the Internet, magazines, the radio)?
Let's brainstorm the pros and cons of the different sources!
Need some help to get started? Listen to six people from different countries talk about where they get their news from.
Remember we are going to use your contributions to start working on the essay next week!
20 comments:
In my opinion, the best sourse of news is the "RADIO".
Not only the radio is a compañy, but also let you develop your own opinion about any topic.
see you all, Fede cecca
For me the best source of news is the internet because visiting web sites you can find many points of view of the same topic.
Enjoy your weekend, see you on Monday.
Dear Fede and Mariana,
Thanks for setting the ball rolling!
As you know, when we decide on the main idea for our essay, we also have to think of reasons and examples to support our thesis.
You have mentioned that both the radio and the Internet allow you to have access to different points of view, but is this a unique characteristic of these sources?How are they different to the rest?
Can somebody else add other reasons? What can we say about these sources in terms of availability, depth and scope?
I look forward to your contributions!
Which is the best source of daily news? Actually this question is overwhelming. Simply because it is too difficult to choose just only one them. In this case, it is necessary to clarify the ideas. First of all I' am going to present you which those sources are at this time and then I' am going to justify why it is difficult to choose the best source.
As we know,technology has changed the way we get informed. During many years newspapers and Television were the only two sources of news. But recently, a new contender has appeared in the sand. Internet is the name of that fighter.
Great start, Aldo!
The Internet has surely changed the way information is produced and distributed.
When you say "sand" you probably mean the "arena", right?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arena
Let's keep the discussion going!
Thanks Carla!!
You are right. I meant to use arena as a metaphor.
Not only the Internet has changed the way the information is produced and distributed, but Internet has also changed the amount of information available to the public.
Moreover, an important aspect to be considered is reliability of that large amount of data.
The more important souce of news is internet because you can:
- look for an especific news
- find differents points of view about the same news
- obtain many details of each kind of news.
See you on monday. Juan
Apparently somebody has found the Holly Grial and I didn't know about its existence. I'am too much esceptical about It. Sorry.
[See you tomorrow night in the real world.]
Byte Byte
Aldo
Hi Aldo,
I was a bit surprised by your comment, but I guess it's just because we didn't have enough time to discuss this task in class. ;)
The aim of this blog thread was simply to explore the topic and by no means to find "the answer". Each of you will later choose one source of news and provide reasons and examples to support your choice.
Based on your comments, we'll see if all the ideas discussed here would be appropriate to develop the topic. Besides, there are some grammar points I see we need to go over in class.
It's Ok if you don't feel comfortable communicating through the blog (but it's a pity since your contributions were really great!:))This is just an optional space.
Thanks for your participation anyway!
Regards,
I feel sorry Carla.
The expresion Holly Grail is a metaphor too. "Internet is equal to Holly Grail". It the place where you can find all the information you need without doubting about the quality of their contents. That was my intention when I used that metaphor. Maybe I used in the wrong way. Out of context. Sorry again.
Anyway, It is really very difficult to present ideas about a topic then discuss about them and finally write and essay. I'am not used to this new method.
See you
No worries! :) See you tomorrow.
I find very interesting the topic. I like the Internet because is faster even than the TV and you can find two kind of sources: the independent ones and the digital newspapers, with different points of view. On the other hand, in our country, internet it isn't as developed as in other countries, so TV, radio and newspapers have more scope. Perhaps in a close future Internet will be the most popular and effective one. See you.
As far as I am concerned the Internet is the richest source of information since it allows people to have access to a wide variety of sites. There, one can find the latest news from all over the world and in a great number of languages as well. Moreover, it contains from up-to-date information that can be found in the radio, the TV and worldwide newspapers, to interesting curiosities that cannot be seen anywhere else.
Besides, nowadays many people spend the majority of their time in front of a computer, which makes on-line news more handy and appealing to them.
However, as Aldo pointed out, one should bare in mind the fact that not all the data that appears on the net is reliable enough. For that reason, it is esential for Internet users to carefully study each source so as to achieve complete confidence in the material read.
See you tonight,
Leila
It could be claimed that Internet is the best source of news. The Web provides instant information from around the World. Different analysis or perspectives can be found (and compared) in a short period of time. For instance, an Argentinian can immediately trace an event that takes place in Japan. Distances and time have been shortened. Everything leads to conclude that Internet has revolutionized the world of communication.
José
I think we should discriminate a sourse of news from a sourse of information.
Throw the internet we could find any caind of information. But wich are thous sources that provide us specificaly news? Thous are digital newspapers, radios transmited throw internet, etc. Have you noted that are the same sources we used to know but digitalized.
Is true that internet have made news faster than ever. Of course internet is the future in news and comunication, but culd you always find what you are looking for in the internet?
In the comunication century the world is having a comunicational problem, an excess of comunication.
Great job, guys!
You've pointed out some other relevant aspects we should take into account such as reliability, information overload and the importance of being critical readers.
Have you noticed how your contributions developed from very simple comments to more complex and thorough ideas?
I can't wait to read the essays! ;)
See you later in class!
It is difficult to choose one, because nowdays if you look for information in internet, for instance, you can find different kind of mass media with different ideologies, from different parts of the world, that show you the reality of different points of views. It is the most democratic media. The television has change too because if you have cable or direct tv you can see what happened in others countries or what others countries think of what happened in your country. As the radio the tv can show you of different ways the things at the same time they occured.The Newspaper or specific magazines are important, if you want to know more about an specif matter. Because even though you can read articles of newspaper in internet, they are not of them published.
So, the best source of depends on what are you looking for.
I find this exchange very interesting! It´s a pitty I couldn´t participate in it earlier.
Anyway,as regards sources of information I agree that Internet is a main point.I think it is a key invention as similar as it was the printing press in the 15th century.Because regarding communication anything was the same after those inventions. However, I agree with Aldo and Leila about the reliability of this source. Anyway, although as a source of information Internet has a lot of weaknesses, I don´t know a better one.
I won´t be able to attend to the class. See you all on wednesday.
Here's a site where you can practice your independent writing online:
http://www.cz-training.com/toefl/practice.html
Well ofcourse no doubt dat Internet is d best way of the news sourse coz we cant watch tv or radio in our office bt can visit d websites n can get news immidiatetly .....so at any point of time net is there...bt nt tv or radio or newspapers..wel we can watch news visually too frm many sites..n also can listen it..tv radio n newspapers r nt available at offices bt surely net is.N apart frm dis we can surf news besides checking mails n doin others stuff too...there r several websites r there for news we can reffer news frm many of them n can collect n assure abt news ..dats why its best sourse for news for me!!.
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