Remember that time at a college party almost 10 years ago with you slurping beer out of some random dude's hairy belly button? Well, your friends took a picture of it and decided to post it on Facebook for their #tbt and tagged you in it. You see the post after you sent your job application to the biggest company in your city. You laughed at the post and gave it a like, your future employer did not. You just lost your job opportunity. In the article "10 Tips For Maintaining a Professional Image Online" by Nathan Chandler, it reveals that not only can your actions ruin you online image, your friends and other colleagues can taint your image with obscene photos and posts just by tagging or inserting your name. "People who initially find you on the Internet have only that content by which to judge you."(Chandler, 1) I believe in this because before I meet any of my professors I went and googled them to get a sense of what kind of person they were and what could I expect from them personality wise. It also states that "Your best option is to keep negative materials from ever hitting the Web in the first place." (Chandler, 3) This is extremely true. It is your job to make sure that any bad representations of yourself do not end up on the web because it will never go away. People share thousands upon thousands of post everyday and who knows, your bad picture or post could be one of them.
Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out Myth #3: Perfect first drafts Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I” Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...
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