Fake News: Manipulation Of Public Opinion

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First thing that I want to say is that this essay is not one of the greatest things that I wrote. For the title, I wanted it to sound really eye grabbing and interesting, so I called my essay “A Fault In Our News”. This was based off of a famous book called “The Fault In Our Stars”. Since I found out that the title is not an academic title, I followed the revision guide and I made the revised essay title to “Fake News: Manipulation of Public Opinion”. After writing the title, I worked on introducing the essay. In both essays, I introduce the it with a story of my mom watching a fake video that she thinks is real. In the original essay, I ended the lead-in abruptly. It sounded kind of awkward, so in the revised essay I added a smoother transition …show more content…

Another thing that I changed from the original to the revised essay is the inclusion of a source. In the original essay, I included a basic definition of the term “fake news”. I felt the inclusion to defined the term “fake news” was not necessary because after I defined the term, I stated that fake news is more prevalent than ever. Since that fake news have been a widespread issue, the definition of fake news should be common knowledge by. For this reason, I got rid of the source from the introduction. After revising the introduction, I continue to revised my body paragraphs. There was only one thing I edited in the first body paragraph. In the original essay, there was a sentence where I describe how teenagers are easy target by fake news due to their lack of media literacy skills and emotional appeal. I was told that the sentence was either incomplete or a run on sentence, so I changed it around from saying emotional appeal to easy manipulation. For the …show more content…

I want to say that I made huge changes to these paragraphs. In the original essay, I discuss about how Facebook can fight back against fake news along with the French president promoting a law that deal with reducing fake new too. I didn’t included a source that talks about Facebook’s method of combating fake news, so I included a source along with adding more explanation in the revised essay. For the other con point paragraph, I found a more up to date and better article about the fake news law that Malaysia is trying to promote. I replaced entire paragraph about the fake news law in France with the fake news law in Malaysia. In the refute paragraph, I tried to add a better explanation of why banning fake news was bad because I felt that I did a bad job of explaining it in the original. For the conclusion, I got rid of some unneeded lines so that I can fit more words into my

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