After all, it was never a conscious choice to prefer a hot coffee and burrito slurpeddown at 60 miles per hour to a coffee sipped out of a china cup with the day’snewspaper at hand and a hot, cooked meal on the kitchen table. e cupholder is atool that drivers and passengers adore and demand, but without ever considering why,or what alternatives they forgo in obsessing over drinks on the go.

oday, the average American spendsabout 50 minutes commuting each day. Eating in cars is so common that somemodels come equipped with built-in vacuums to clean up the crumbs.

Minivans would eventually come to symbolize modern motherhood and becomeemblematic of a harried woman trying to do it all—suited up for work and stillmaking it to soccer practice at the end of the day, feeding the brood in the back withsodas and snacks, all the while stoking herself with caffeine as she rushed through herday. And that’s likely the real origin of the cupholder as we know it

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/cupholders-are-everywhere/558545/ 2/10Although it might be hard to imagine now, eating and drinking in cars was once nextto impossible.

From this idea map, the student saw they could consider narrowing the focus of her mass media topic to the more specific topic of music piracy

This technique is also known as clustering because ideas are broken down and clustered, or grouped together.

Freewriting is an exercise in which you write freely about any topic for a set amount of time (usually three to five minutes

Sometimes college applications ask students to write their personal essay sample based on a random topic that’s intentionally vague, because very broad topics allow students to go in nearly any direction they wish, a condition ripe for expressing voice.

And it is difficult, if not impossible, to write effectively about a text that you have not understood.

In college, academic expectations change from what you may have experienced in high school.