Today as I talked to students, it became apparent that Essay Option 1 for First Essay is the most difficult because it is a broad informative paper about Internet addiction. The other options, 2 and 3, are more argumentative in nature and as such they are more compelling and more easy to write. So keep that in mind. In any event, feeling a bit lukewarm about my own thesis, here is an example of an informative thesis that examines 4 causes (mapping components) of Internet addiction at Walden:
“Love and War in Cyberspace” by Katy Vine explores the causes of Internet addiction in a closed environment called "Walden." The addiction stems from anti-social personalities, a culture that encourages techno-addiction as cool, the delusion that the "online community" provides a sense of belonging for desperately lonely people and a monolithic quasi-cult that caters to the computer addicts' every whim.
Here is a better, more stylized thesis with different mapping components:
Take a bunch of socially dysfunctional computer nerds in desperate search of belonging, stick them in a yuppie techno-apartment flexing its steroidal broadband muscles and you’ve got Walden, a microcosm of the types of addictions Americans will face in the near future. These addictions will include a sick attachment to trumped-up, often noxious alter egos, the need to vent without boundaries, the preference of virtual worlds to the real world and all the chemicals the body requires to stay up in a ghoul-like existence where sleep is little more than an afterthought.
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