When it came to popular
culture artifact, I started thinking about some objects with long history such
as writing brush, necklace, embroidery, Chinese knot and things like that. As a
result, I became so nervous because I am not familiar with these things, not to
mention we have to write about it. Luckily, the definition of culture artifact
is not that narrow. Almost everything can be culture artifact even including
human! “Probably the best way to choose a topic and artifacts for this project
is to think about those artifacts that interest you or affect you the
most—perhaps something you have particular experience with, prior knowledge of,
or strong feelings about,” Barb wrote. Thus, after reading assignment
description, I decided to make a list of culture artifact that I could see, I
could touch, or even I eat. This did help me a lot; I found plenty of
significant artifacts. At last, I choose to write about contact lenses. Contact
lenses are gaining increasing popularity these decades. They are popular cultural
artifacts that are incredibly widespread, but very controversial at the same
time.
The audiences for this
essay are users of contact lenses and also the potential user of contact
lenses, and therefore, I began the essay by introducing some authoritative statistics
data in order to attract the reader’s attention. Then, I introduced three
different types of contact lenses and the different function of them.
In project two, I want
to argue that contact
lenses have more advantages than downsides and we cannot blame contact lenses because we misuse
them. Although contact lenses may cause some effects to users’ eyes after
long-term use, it is inappropriate to negate contact lenses entirely based on
this reason because everything has risks. In the rest of the essay, I list tons of advantages
of contact lenses, and I not only use my true story but also many source form
database to support my thoughts.
I am weak in grammar, so I
made lots of mistake in the essay at first. After listening to my partner’s (Alexa)
suggestions, I want to Writing Center for help. The TA there was so nice, and
she helped me to clear up these issues. Also, when doing Eli Review, my partner,
Alexa, told me that it might be a good idea to define what myopia is. Thus, I
add an explanation in parentheses behind “Myopia” so that way the reader
wouldn't have to look it up while reading the essay.
