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Emily Hughes Effects Of Video Games On Child Development

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“Effects of Video Games on Child Development” by Emily Hughes is not a good source to use for my research project because of the author's lack of experience and because I knew the information beforehand. First of all the author Emily Hughes is a blog writer for the Developmental Psychology at Vanderbilt. The style that the article was written to only give information, and not propose an argument. Emily Hughes says in her last paragraph that the topic of video games is controversial and it is up to the parents to decide what is best for their children (Hughes). This claim does not agree with one side or the other. Emily Hughes is only a student in psychology and by no means an expert in her field. Secondly the information in Emily Hughes’s

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