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Assignment 1: Information Literacy
Part 1:
No Cell phones! Chinese Walking Lane Separates Phone Addicts
Part 2:
It has been a well known fact that cell phones are very distracting and pose great danger
when being used while doing other things like driving, and sometimes, walking! If your head is
down, on your phone and an object is coming towards you, you most likely will not notice it
until it is too late. One Chinese property manager decided to show pedestrians just how
distracting cell phones can be. The property manager painted to separate lanes on a sidewalk, one
that banned the use of cell phones and the other that allowed cell phone use which read, Cell
phones, walk in this lane at your own risk. The lanes were painted to remind people the dangers
of walking and being on your cell phones. Also in Washington D.C., there were similar lanes
painted to emphasize the same point the property manager in China was emphasizing with phone
safety. Maybe one day these lanes will come into effect in different countries in the world to help
aid in cell phone civility.
Part 3:
I used Google as my primary search engine for my article, but for this part of the
project, I used Bing as my search engine. I typed in banned cell phone lane and I realized
that while I was typing, the letters took a little while to come up in the search box, which
annoyed me because I felt like it was slowing me down. The search results popped up within a
matter of seconds and the top two articles were about phones being banned from driving but the
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third article was the same topic as the article I had primarily found, Heads up! Chinese city
launches smart phone- only side walk.
The second search engine was ask.com. I clicked on the news tab at the top and typed
in banned cell phone lane and the first news result was the topic I was searching for. When I
clicked on the link, the article was longer and more detailed than the site where I found my
primary article. The title of the article was, Will city dwellers actually use a no-cell phones lane
on the sidewalk. Out of all three search engines, ask was better. It was fast, and the article
was more informative and detailed than the others. I never really used ask.com before, but now
I might just start.
Part 4:
Heads up! Chinese city launches smart phone-only sidewalk
Time: This article was written September 15, 2014. The article has not yet been updated since
September 15.
Relevance: The article was closely related to my article since both articles took place in China, just in
different areas. This article was more so the governments view on the dangers of walking and being on
the phone or just being distracted by your phone period.
Authority: Anne Steele is the author of the article. She is a staff writer of The Christian Science
Monitor.
Accurate: The article used different quotes from other newspaper articles to further support the message
of the primary article. There are also quotes from different government officials throughout the article
explaining in detail the thought process of the Chinese governments, which most likely makes this
article reliable. The article was not tested, there were just observations made..
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Purpose: This article was written to help emphasize the danger of cell phones and to also inform readers
about the steps different countries in the world are taking to prevent these unfortunate accidents that
happen due to cell phone distraction. It is a well known fact that cell phones have negative factors as
well as positive factors, but unfortunately, the negative factors outweigh the positive because of how life
changing and detrimental the results are.

Part 5:
For the journal articles, I used CCBCs Library ProQuest database. I typed cell phone
distraction while walking in the database search bar and 557 different results with the words cell
phone, walking, and distraction highlighted popped up. My reason for using ProQuest Central was
because it contained different journal, magazine and newspaper articles ranging from different subjects.
The other databases that were available were mostly of certain topics unlike proquest that had more of
a variety to their research. The journal articles were:
Texting and Walking: Strategies for Postural Control and Implications for Safety:
e84312.
The association of distraction and caution displayed by pedestrians at a lighted
crosswalk.
Part 6:
If I had to do a research paper on the danger of cell phone distractions, I would use the CCBC
library database rather than the technology section of NBC news. With the journal articles, they are
peer reviewed, meaning they are have been read and approved by scholars in that field. With peer
reviewed articles, there are many rules and guidelines that the articles have to adhere by, making them
factually accurate and unbiased. With secondary sources, information is based, more so, upon the
authors thoughts and feelings. Secondary sources are better used for quick assignments, to get
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information real quick and thats it. My personal opinion, the journal articles were professional with real
data to back up the purpose of the article and had a complete process to their findings.





















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MLA Citations
Wagstaff, Keith. "No Cellphones! Chinese Walking Lane Separates Phone Addicts -
NBC News." NBC News. N.p., 15 Sept. 2014. Web. 19 Sept. 2014.
<http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/no-cellphones-chinese-walking-lane-
separates-phone-addicts-n203576>.
Kholi, Sonali. "Will City-dwellers Actually Use a No-cellphones Lane on the
Sidewalk?" Quartz. N.p., 18 July 2014. Web. 19 Sept. 2014. <http://qz.com/237063/will-
city-dwellers-actually-use-a-no-cellphones-lane-on-the-sidewalk/>.
Steele, Anne. "Heads Up! Chinese City Launches Smartphone-only Sidewalk."The
Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sept. 2014. Web. 19 Sept.
2014. <http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0915/Heads-up%21-
Chinese-city-launches-smartphone-only-sidewalk>.
APA Citations
Schabrun, S. M., Hoorn, W. v., Moorcroft, A., Greenland, C., & Hodges, P. W. (2014).
Texting and walking: Strategies for postural control and implications for safety. PLoS
One, 9(1) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084312
Bungum, T. J., Day, C., & Henry, L. J. (2005). The association of distraction and caution
displayed by pedestrians at a lighted crosswalk. Journal of Community Health, 30(4),
269-79. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-005-3705-4