Research Paper - Draft 0 (Julia Chu) by Julia Chu

Reference List

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Background

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In today’s digital age, smartphones, laptops, iPads, and smartwatches are ubiquitous.
While technology offers convenience and accessibility, constantly switching between apps, websites, and tasks can lead to distraction and negatively impact college students’ mental health and academic performance.
As a result, people are drained in this digital world, unknowingly influenced by online content, which can harm college students’ mental health and academic performance.

Conclusion

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Introduction

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Thesis Statement

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In a world of technological ubiquity, college students need strategies to maintain mental health, achieve academic success, and minimize digital distractions.

Mental Health (Body paragraph 1)

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People feel anxious when they are not able to access their digital devices, which their constant checking of these devices contributes to a negative impact on their mental health.

Strategies (Body paragraph 3)

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Academic Performance (Body paragraph 2)

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Topic sentence: A major factor contributing to academic struggles for some college students is digital distractions, resulting in reduced attention span and productivity.

Devices in class

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While some students believe that devices in the classroom have more pros than cons, however, students can misuse those tools. Some students play video games, others reply to messages, and some use devices to cheat in class (The Learning Network).

Research Question

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What effective strategies can college students employ to minimize the negative impacts of digital distractions on their mental health and academic performance?

Productivity

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Limit screen time

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Create a physical barrier with the phone: Put the phone in another room, or out of view (Bindley).
Plan to do other things, such as activities without digital devices.

Hook

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According to the PISA results, approximately 67% of U.S. students admitted to being distracted by their own digital device use, while more than half reported being distracted by their peers' use of digital resources (Langreo).

Influence self-regulation

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Notification

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According to a report by Common Sense Media, teenagers receive a staggering 273 notifications per day on average, with approximately 23% of these notifications arriving during school hours, potentially disrupting their focus and learning (Langreo).

Action from the school/ government

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school restricting on phone: Students can focus on learning (Langreo).
Teachers are becoming more mindful and strategic in their use of digital devices in the classroom, carefully selecting when and how to incorporate them into their class activities (Langreo).

Can influence sleep

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Simply take a break

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information overload (Rosen and Samuel).

Information overload

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The constant connection culture exacts a heavy toll on both our professional and personal lives. By devoting excessive time, attention, and energy to trivial information and interactions, we end up perpetually busy but fail to generate meaningful output or make significant progress (Rosen and Samuel).

Multitasking

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Multitasking is often a myth:

Successfully performing two tasks simultaneously is only possible when one task is routine or automatic.
Research by Gloria Mark at the UC Irvine, reveals that workers typically focus on a task for merely three minutes before switching to another activity, which is often a digital device, and it takes 20 more minutes to refocus on the original task (Rosen and Samuel).

Anxious

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In Numerous studies, researchers discovered that a many people across different age groups have a common behavior of checking their smartphones every 15 minutes or less, and experience anxiety when prevented them from doing so (Rosen and Samuel).