Freddie is a reporter for his school’s newspaper. he’s been assigned to write an article on a new type of surgery taking place at a local hospital. the hospital has promised freddie a tour of an operating room where the new surgery is performed. upon arriving at the hospital, he is greeted by sanja, a spokesperson for the hospital. 2 “freddie, this type of surgery is very new,” sanja told him. in fact, this hospital is one of the few hospitals currently using it.” freddie followed sanja down a quiet hallway. sanja turned to him and said, “there’s actually minor surgery being performed right now. i thought you might want to see the procedure for yourself.” a surgical robot 3 they walked into a small auditorium where one wall was made entirely of glass. as freddie walked toward the glass, he could see an operating room below. wow! he thought to himself. this is going to be exciting. 4 as freddie looked through the glass, it took him a few seconds to understand what he was looking at. he could see that a patient was laying on the operating table, covered with blue sheets. a doctor or nurse was standing near the patient, and another doctor or nurse was hunched over a computer a few feet away. no one was actually touching the patient. instead, a large complicated machine with three mechanical arms was standing over the patient. from where he stood, it looked as though the ends of the three arms were inserted into the patient’s body. 5 “what’s going on? ” freddie asked sanja. “what’s that machine doing? ” 6 “that’s the new procedure,” sanja told freddie. “we use a surgical robot to perform minor surgery here. the surgical robot has three arms. one arm inserts a tiny camera into the patient’s body. the other two arms have instruments attached to them that perform the surgery.” 7 “are you saying that a robot is performing surgery on that patient? ” freddie asked. 8 “yes,” sanja replied, “but not totally on its own. see the surgeon sitting at the computer console? he is directing the robot’s movements.” 9 sanja went on to explain that the images from the camera were displayed on the surgeon’s computer screen. the images are three-dimensional and magnified 12 times. they the surgeon see the area to be operated on better than if he were actually standing next to the patient. 10

which is a good strategy to use after you read to make sure you can remember the most important points? a. summarizing b. making inferences c. predicting d. metacognition

Hello  601,

The correct answer  you are looking for is  A summarizing. This strategy works best because in its process you only summarize the key points you need in order to comprehend it to its optimal.

My choice here would be d. metacognition.

A comparative analysis allows supporting such conclusion. This is a very sensitive and critical issue: the robotization of medicine in order to preserve and/or extend the life of a human being. Normally humans prefer to be operated by humans and here that is not exactly the case, a human patient is being operated directly by a robot. Of course, that robot is being controlled and manipulated by a human operator, a human doctor but the doctor is not touching the flesh. As much as people support technological advances they would not be automatically be willing to accept that minor surgeries be performed through the intermediary of a machine. It would be irresponsible for the journalist to make inferences about the benefits or the disadvantages of such approach, as it would be irresponsible to make predictions without enough experimentation, testing and trials in order to do fully understand the validity of the technique. Summarizing would not do justice to the new technology as it would most likely omit important aspects for the public.

Metacognition in the other hand would be a great way of vulgarizing a complex procedure. Meta cognition provides a deepened analysis of knowledge and methods in so much that it induces a self-awareness about them in terms of both efficiency and moral/ethical standing. In more layman’s terms, metacognition would entail properly researching the ethical and procedural pros and cons of using human-operated robotic assistants to perform minor surgeries on human beings. If after such research the procedure proves to be beneficial to the said human beings by such parameters, this technique would benefit enormously from a the inevitably good public perception of the procedure that a press article would generate by properly educating the public on all of its facets, both negative and positive. The public always appreciates to be kept in the loop and not to be patronized as being incapable of studying and evaluating new knowledge.

for the comment!

hmm, sadly there is no dialogue. there is no place in the story where he is talking to anyone. it's more of just describing what he eats and where he sleeps. you have to become anne frank, give details of where you are, what other folks look like, how the environment is. have a little bit of dialogue tell of what people are specifically saying. anne frank talked about her entire household including the people, the objects, the lighting, the food they ate, and even the smell in the air. there has to be more to your diary entries, the whole story in its current state is only about peter van daan, the food, the sounds, and where he sleeps. also he seems to be writing only once a year yet more than that happened from day to day. for a friend, i can you write it out, if you want.