“They Say I Say and Watching TV Makes You Smarter”

Abstract

Television has a great impact on high school achievements in both the ways, positive and negative. It has a good impact on academic achievements if it is watched only for the purpose of gaining knowledge such as some television channels are good as they increase the general knowledge of children for instance, national geographic channel, and sports channels. While on the other hand, watching television leads towards the adversity and therefore leaves negative on high school achievements as some violence oriented programs lead towards deterioration of behavior of children and their attitudes thus results in low grades and poor performance.

Introduction

The book they say I say is the creation of Gerald Graff and Cathy Birenstein published in 2009. This book has got a considerable significance in schools and academies. It has clearly signified the move of summarizing what other says 'they say' to setting up your own argument 'I say'. This book provides so several templates to assist student about writing and how to make key moves in writing. The primary motive of this book is to guide academic writing and to summarize what others have said. This book is the great and an excellent source of writing.

The second topic which we are going to present is watching TV makes you smarter is the creation of Steven Johnson. The writer of this topic has represented his views on television and how it impacts on our daily lives and how it makes a person smarter. According to him TV makes us smarter because it teaches us everything even the things which we are not going to learn in our academic lives and how this information make a person smarter and know it all type of person.

Thesis Statements

Watching television has adversely affected our health and abilities.

Television is promoting violence and destruction through various programs.

Television has a great role in convincing youth towards the delinquent activities in the society.

Discussion

Johnson has provided a great deal of importance and significance of watching TV in his essay watching TV makes you smarter. Johnson has argued against the belief that watching TV leaves negativity over the person rather he came up with the idea of watching TV makes you smarter and contributes in the intelligence.

Johnson has highlighted that the most of the television programs represent complexity and multi threading which has provided a viewer with the more emotional connection to the characters of the program. According to him, the complexity in TV programs have contributed in the enhancement of cognitive skills and now viewer have to pay much more attention to understand the concept of the program which consequently impact significantly over their minds while if we consider the drama and programs of one decade ago, there were no proper story line as well as complexity. But, I strongly disagree with Johnson that watching TV makes you smarter rather it makes us dumber by affecting our health and abilities. I would like to say that with the increase ...