Celebrating Nerdiness - Tom Rogers

Hi guys,

I hope you can help me out.

What is the main idea of this article? http://www.newsweek.com/id/104847

For me, I feel that it's about how nerds have a tough time in school/ are left out from the school population BECAUSE they are different i.e. they preserve their authenticity and "kept it real".

However, my friends say that I am wrong. Help.

Your friends are right. The article is about celebrating nerdiness. Nerds are essentially how society labels intelligent, successful people. The term should not therefore be one of opprobrium.

Both views are correct: The article both acknowledges that people labeled as nerds suffer social opprobrium and asserts that nerdiness is something to celebrate.

Yikes so I got it wrong. =X

So this article's main idea is about how nerds should remain the way they are because they are viewed by the society (in the long run) as intelligent and successful people?

EF_Simone

How do I create a thesis on this?

how does this article tackle the issue of authenticity vs. the need to maintain stereotype image??

In "Celebrating Nerdiness," Tom Rogers argues that...

EF_Simone

Thanks but is there anything in this article which talks about the need to maintain stereotype image? I can't seem to find any.

Sorry, I'm pretty new at this. :x

Don't ask me what's in the article. Read the article yourself.

What does your teacher want? A summary of the article? Or your own views on the topics discussed in the article?