Self-monitoring

According to Jennifer B. Ganz, self-monitoring allows students, especially those with autism, to be conscious of their behaviors. By recognizing their behaviors, they can reward themselves when signs of improvement appear and change those negative behaviors to positive behaviors. This strategy is easily implemented in a classroom setting, where the teacher can reward the autistic child after seeing an improvement. This method of self-improvement can be applied to both academic and behavioral improvements. A very similar method is used with children. When a child does something incorrectly, they are punished, while a good deed is often rewarded. The punishment in self-monitoring is not receiving an award. Although the autistic child may only be performing the good deed to obtain an award, he/she will naturally form an instinct to what is good. The child will continue to perform the proper behavior till the point where rewards can be decreased so that they can know to act properly without the rewards. Also the parent or the teacher will not longer have to monitor the child as intensely as before. When I was in kindergarten, I received a golden star when I cleaned up and kept the playroom neatly. As years passed, stickers were no longer awarded because I knew how to act properly.
Two articles were selected by Andrew McCann concerning text messaging. Each of the articles fell into a level of depths and targeted a different audience per say. The New Yorker article, Thumbspeak, targeted the more elite, the Click Press article had a wide audience, and the Information and Management journal targeted more of an educated audience. For example, the article in the New Yorker, a french phases, "j'ai achete du vin" was used but not translate. Thus, the author assumed his intellectual audience would understand a common french phrase. Scholarly articles are preferred for research papers since they are credible source that are often written by professors, professionals, or graduate students. Yet, they are somewhat difficult to read because they contain jargon that attain to a particular research field. Thus, the reader often must have a basic understanding of the field before reading the article. Such articles contain some of the most detailed information since the writers have devoted much time to perfecting them. Thus, they are very useful for papers and research.