Final Exam Prompt: For your final exam, you will write to de…
Final Exam Prompt: For your final exam, you will write to demonstrate your ability to summarize academic articles, synthesize information from multiple sources, use MLA documentation, organize your ideas clearly, and maintain an academic tone. Prompt:Read the following two articles about the impact of social media on the mental health of teenagers and young adults. Your task is twofold: Summarize the main arguments and key findings of each article in your own words, making sure to attribute ideas clearly and use MLA in-text citations. Stay in an academic tone. Synthesize the information from both articles to develop your own argument about the effects of social media on young people’s mental health. Discuss how the articles agree, differ, or complicate each other, and explain how your own position draws on their ideas. You must use both PARAPHRASING AND QUOTING and parenthetical in-text citations in MLA format. This is not a personal experience or opino piece. Articles for Support: (click the links provided with the citations) Twenge, Jean M. “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” The Atlantic, Sept. 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/. O’Keeffe, Gwenn Schurgin, and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson. “The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families.” Pediatrics, vol. 127, no. 4, 2011, pp. 800–804. Open Access via Google Scholar (PDF) Requirements: Summarize both articles accurately and concisely, using MLA in-text citations. Synthesize the information from both sources to present your own clear, arguable thesis. Organize your essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Include a Works Cited page in proper MLA format. Maintain a formal, academic tone throughout your essay. You will not be able to use double-space in the textbox.