Have a look at the 'Digital Wellness Wheel' provided here and think about your digital wellness priorities and how digital technology is influencing these different spheres of your wellness: physical, spiritual/emotional, intellectual, social, financial/professional, fun/recreational.

You are going to select three (3) wellness priorities to discuss for this assignment. For each of the three priorities you've selected, ask yourself:

• In what ways does digital technology negatively impact this area of my wellness?
• In what ways does digital technology positively impact this area of my wellness?
• What can I do to balance the negative impacts of digital technology in this area of my wellness?
• What can I do to enhance the positive impacts of digital technology in this area of my wellness?

Read and think about what you just learned from your own responses. Do you see any patterns or key themes in your responses? You're going to then decide whether to write your essay about the negative impacts or positive impacts. This will be your theme of what will drive the essay; you want to have an argument or assertion to frame your essay - otherwise it leans to short answer or a descriptive report, and we don't want that.

Here is some more detail about the essay's structure to help you with your essay writing skills. Essay writing is very important in the humanities, but it is a skill-set that is cross-disciplinary - and universal.

Your Introduction will give some context/background for your essay and then gives a clear sentence (or two) that tells the reader what this essay is going to assert/argue and why (like a thesis statement). Your introduction must clearly tell the reader what will be discussed in the essay and why.

Your Discussion section/body of essay is three paragraphs, one for each priority. Your topic sentence of the paragraph reminds the reader of the argument/assertion you're making in the essay. Your discussion paragraphs discuss how digital technology negatively OR positively impacts this area of your wellness, and what you can do to balance the negative impact OR enhance the positive impact of digital technology in this area of your wellness. *Don't write about both negative and positive, choose one.

Your Conclusion restates your thesis/argument/direction from the introduction and recaps the points you made to support this in the discussion section. It reminds the reader of what the purpose of the essay is and how you supported your assertions. It should also provide some 'so-what?' thoughts and considerations for wider social implications.