Analysis of 101 Essay

         Today I will be analyzing an essay I wrote for English 101 titled “Mental Laziness” (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SkMuzJ90cfTk56Y2hlaVRzRW8/view?usp=sharing). The assignment has an open prompt, meaning I could choose any topic so long as I had a thesis, and wrote in support of said thesis. My purpose in writing this piece was to persuade people into using technology and its advances for further advancements rather than complacency. My intended audience would generally be anyone who utilizes technology on a daily basis, which is almost everyone (especially you since you are reading an online blog post). My thesis statement was “The wrong usage of technology, ironically stemming from the human brain, is one of the main reasons the large majority of American’s have become mentally lazy”. Given my thesis, I’m sure you can derive my stance on the topic in question. I believe that certain technologies have made it easier for Americans to become both physically and mentally lazy. The medium I used was written communication, which is often a hard way to get a point across to certain individuals. But it is also a great way to form a concise and useful argument. Reading over the essay for a second time, one way I feel as if I could have improved would have been to broaden my argument by saying technology itself was not the only thing to blame. But rather, the human user of technology deserves some blame. Being provided with the technology to become lazy is a start, and an uncontrollable variable, but choosing to use the technology in the wrong ways and letting it make you lazy is a conscience decision.