Definition Entirely

I feel that my research paper for core 4 is going to be mostly fact based. My topic on whether or not adults are pressured by society and their kids to adapt with current technology has to be fact based, much like Malcolm X’s argument of being in prison and learning to read and write. He states what he went through and how he learned, all the facts that contributed to his literacy. My research is going to be comprised of scholarly articles and family interviews. All of these sources are factual. All the information I used is going to be gathered from scholarly articles that have conducted research studies or surveys, both factual and not definition. For example one of my sources deals with an Air Force Scientist who studies how adults compared to the younger individuals when it came to using new software. He studied I believe 118 subjects and came up with conclusive evidence supporting my claim that adults are not as good with technology as their children or younger generations. He also discusses how around 80% of adults experience some psychological blocks that inhibits their learning of new technologies. All that research is purely factual. In establishing or disproving my point of adults being pushed into using new technologies, I must use facts! The research paper would be considered invalid and unreliable if I had an argument of definition rather than of fact. If I used definition for my paper as Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola it wouldn’t work. They were defining and explaining what digital literacy was, and what should be considered as digital literacy. I on the other hand want to prove or disprove that adults are pressured into becoming fluent technology users. My research paper needs to include facts, and a lot of them at that. When relating or referencing my family members I will be using “factual” information provided to me from them. I am trying to explain how adults feel about technology and that could only be done I believe with facts gathered from studies and published surveys. The only definition portion of my research paper with defining is when it comes to who I consider to be adults. What age do I draw the line at and consider them as “older”? This is the only part of my paper where definition as used by Selber could be applied to my core 4. To properly discover how adults relate to technology facts are needed, in bulk. Bottom line is my study will be an argument of fact completely.