Stephanie Parker writes a solid research paper on the overcoming of traditional cultural barriers by the use of technology. Her introduction is in the form of a narrative, which is very appropriate for her topic. Her paper is about individuals becoming involved in Asian culture while they are elsewhere, and her introduction is interesting and relevant because it focuses on those individuals. If they were not mentioned in the paper, the paper would seem generalized and dull. By choosing this tool in her introduction, she immediately relates her topic to the reader.
She follows this by describing how these people are a part of a cultural cyber-community. Later in her paper, she brings statements from various outside sources into her paper. The legitimacy and influence of these communities are confirmed by various sources that Parker pulls into her paper.
She then focuses on the most popular platform for these cyber-communities to exist--Soompi, a chatroom for cultural discussion. She uses statistics about the site to give the reader a concept of how popular the site is, reinforcing her point that technology is helping people overcome cultural barriers.
She continues to narrow her focus, bringing individual users of Soompi into the picture. She uses their testimonies of their experience on Soompi to reinforce its influence and to make it understandable to the reader. As her paper draws to a close, she uses the final example of an celebrity on Soompi to emphasize how much influence on culture one person can have.
Parker lets her solid examples of online cultural development speak for themselves, finally concluding that the separation of cultures by distance is shrinking more than ever.
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