Literary Review

What is the title of the article?

What are the two variables discussed in the article?

What is the main idea discussed in the first paragraph?

Write down the topic sentence of paragraph 2. What does this paragraph discuss?

How many sources are cited in paragraph 2?

What are the supporting details discussed in paragraph 2? How does the writer show the link between the supporting details? Create a phrase-based outline for these supporting details.

Write down the topic sentence of Paragraph 3. What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Write down the topic sentence of Paragraph 4. What is the main idea of the paragraph?

What is the function of this sentence "Specific types of stress and road safety have received considerable attention individually in the literature, but the effect of global stress and its joint effect with personality on driving behavior have received little attention in previous studies. Thus, drivers’ behavior in such an environment needs to be investigated in order to reduce the potential influence of stress and related personality traits on dangerous driving behavior among Chinese drivers." in paragraph 5?

What is the function of these sentences in paragraph 5?

"The current study had two main goals. First, we aimed to explore the influence of drivers’ global stress on their driving behavior.

Second, we aimed to expand

research on the combined effect of personality and stress on driving safety."

Write down the main ideas of each paragraph in the Introduction section.

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Can you see any relationship between the ideas? What is it?

Read the sources and then write a synthesis paragraph comparing their views.

Source [1] Clive Bell (2007)

Most people have very few really close friends, but like to keep in touch with a lot more people from time to time and social networking sites like Facebook help them to do this. They can also make new friends with similar interests easily by looking at other people’s profiles. A recent survey of teenagers found that nearly one third of them had considered meeting face to face with someone they already knew from the internet.

Source [2] Bill Gatterby (2008)

People become bored very quickly with online social networking sites and begin to dislike the unwanted messages, friend requests and advertisements. Traffic to all popular networking sites has fallen recently, My Space down 2 million visits and Facebook an incredible 5 million.

Source [3] Terri Hodgkinson (2008)

The creators of Facebook simply sit back and watch as millions of Facebook users upload their ID details, photographs and lists of their favourite consumer objects. Then Facebook sells the information to advertisers, or, according to Facebook founder Zuckerberg, “tries to help people share their information.” Facebook pretends to be about freedom, but really it is turning human relationships into a commodity.

Write the Synthesized paragraph below: