I just finished and submitted my final paper for this class to the drop box. I'm definitely a little burnt out from writing over the past couple days so excuse me if I'm not as fluent in this blog post. I want to talk a little bit about the process that I followed for tackling this paper. Although it isn't too much different from how I write my other papers, this one requires a blog!
So I started out by picking a topic (duh!). I chose Made To Break because having worked in a retail technology field for a long time, I was interested in the ideas of planned obsolescence. After having decided my topic, I scoured the web for relevant sources that would compliment Slade's book. A few of the sources were mentioned in my previous blog, but I also managed to find a couple more including an article about the cost of recycling computers and a short write up about planned obsolescence from a perspective other than Slade's.
When actually writing the paper, I developed 5 subtitles so that I included everything that I wanted to discuss as well as everything what was included in the prompt. The subtitles are largely split up based on what sources the information in that section came from, but the more I started writing the more overlap developed. While my paper discusses alot of the social and economical aspects of planned obsolescence and environmentalism, it also has a brief summary of the history of going green as well as some observations on the development of green IT.
Overall, I like to think that I created a pretty well rounded paper based on the topics that were presented so I am satisfied.
I think that is it...
Yeah, it is.
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