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Vsuresh Posted 11 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Summary Writing

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Please give your comments on the summary written on the passage.

TRIGGER warnings have been getting a lot of pushback lately. Professors who have adopted the practice of alerting their students to potentially disturbing content in a text or class are being accused of coddling millennials. And the students who request them are being called “infantile,” or worse.
Trigger warnings are nothing new. The practice originated in Internet communities, primarily for the benefit of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The idea was to flag content that depicted or discussed common causes of trauma, like military combat, child abuse, incest and sexual violence. People could then choose whether or not to engage with this material.
But trigger warnings have been adapted to serve a subtly different purpose within universities. Increasingly, professors give students notice in their syllabuses, or before certain reading assignments. The point is not to enable — let alone encourage — students to skip these readings or our subsequent class discussion. Rather, it is to allow those who are sensitive to these subjects to prepare themselves for reading about them, and better manage their reactions. The evidence suggests that at least some of the students in any given class are likely to have suffered some sort of trauma. So the benefits of trigger warnings can be significant.
Criticisms of trigger warnings are often based on the idea that college is a time for intellectual growth and emotional development. In order for this to happen, students must be challenged. And they need to learn to engage rationally with ideas, arguments and views they find difficult, upsetting or even repulsive.
Triggered reactions can be intense and unpleasant, and may even overtake our consciousness, as with a flashback experienced by a war veteran.
For someone who has experienced major trauma, vivid reminders can serve to induce states of body and mind that are rationally eclipsing in much the same manner. A common symptom of PTSD is panic attacks. Those undergoing these attacks may be flooded with anxiety to the point of struggling to draw breath, and feeling disoriented, dizzy and nauseated. Under conditions such as these, it’s impossible to think straight. (346 words)

Trigger Warning

Recently trigger warning facing has been facing criticisms. Trigger warning is the practice of alerting students to content that are likely to affect them psychologically. Professors have been accused of pampering the students by doing it and students who request them are labeled immature. It started in Internet communities to help those with post traumatic stress disorder. Within universities, professors use them to prevent students from skipping disturbing topics but prepare themselves for them. Critics think that it is in college students have intellectual growth and emotional development and thus they need to learn to think rationally on the topics that are difficult or repulsive. Triggered reactions induced by vivid reminders of trauma the individual has gone through can be intense wherein the person struggles for breathe and feels disoriented. (130 words)
  

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You should quote the source of the text. Emotion: wink
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Thank you very much, teechr.

I'm sorry for the glaring error in the first sentence. I should have checked before posting it.

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