Essay 4 Proposal

Jacqueline Martin

April 15^th 2014

Professor Nicole Williams

English 102

Essay #4 Proposal

I plan to research how dependent young adults are on their cell pones apposed to how older adults were at their age. I realize that I will need to touch up my thesis. I plan to interview young adults my age as well as some older adults. I will compare and contrast the data I find to put together a well throughout reach paper.

            I chose this topic because I wanted to research something that I found interesting. I would like to see the data I collect because I wonder is I personally am to dependent on my cellphone. I have come to realize that if it’s not in my hand it is constantly in reaching distance. I wonder how many other young adults are facing the same “addiction.” I find myself wondering what young adults did before cellphones. It is mind-blowing to me that at one point in time cellphones did not exist, or they were used strictly for phone calls. Now a days cellphones are used for so much more than just calling, all social media is assessable twenty four hours a day.

            The key topics that I plan to researcher are things such as when cellphones, texting, and smart phones originated, what types of communication was primarily used before cellphones. I hope to interview five young adults and five older adults. I want to ask them a variety of question. I will ask the young adults questions such as how often a day they are on their phones, and what they use it for mainly. I will ask the older adults to think back to their teenage years and answer the questions as if they were that age. I want to compare the time difference.