On the other hand, in Lukianoff and Haidt’s article they talk about trigger warnings and how people who have past trauma or feel offended from the lectures in class don’t need to complete the assignment. “For example some students have called for warnings…so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might trigger a recurrence of past trauma” (Paragraph 2). This means that people who have experienced trauma or domestic violence can avoid assignments just because they have experienced it and are uncomfortable to hear in class. Students may escape from the topic when being presented in class since certain aspects of the topic could be harmful to the students’ emotional well being. I did the ellipses for this one and it really helped to trim down my quotes so that the readers can easily associate with the quote and the idea of what this paragraph is talking about.

At the same time, in Lukianoff and Haid’s article they talked about how  cognitive behavioral therapy can try to fix people who have fixed minds on feeling offended on certain topics. “cognitive behavioral therapy teaches good critical-thinking skills, the sort that educators have striven for so long to impart. By almost any definition, critical thinking requires grounding one’s [people’s] beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.” (Paragraph 18). This shows that cognitive behavioral therapy requires critical thinking and it needs more understanding of the topic rather than your emotional desire. You can have your opinions and beliefs but it needs deep evidence of why you think that way rather than having your emotion as the support. I did the brackets for this one and it helped clarify the sentence in the quote so the readers know who you are referring about.

In Dweck’s TED talk, she talks about the brain activity of people who have a fixed mindset and how it influences them when they face a problem. “On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There’s hardly any activity. They run from the error. They don’t engage with it” (01:51). This means that people with a fixed mindset will not try to solve or engage with the problem but rather run away from it. They do not like challenges and will not think they can do it but the opposite. I did the using signal phrase to introduce sources fr this one. It helped letting readers know who the author is and what she’s talking about in the quote.