Myth of Multitasking

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Writer, Christine Rosen, in her article "The Myth of Multitasking" expounds on the effects of multitasking. Rosen's purpose is to convey the idea that multitasking and self-distractions are detrimental to a person's all around well-being and makes wisdom difficult to be gained when a person's attention is in multiple places. Multitasking is something that everyone utilizes, sometime some more often than others. Rosen used her article to justify her theory that multitasking is detrimental to one's self; she establishes her reasoning with examples of studies done by psychologists, neurologists, and other credible sources. Rosen begins her article by quoting Lord Chesterfield where he offered the following advice "There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time". The second paragraph describes multitasking and its role in modern day life, then compares it to life before when multitasking was just beginning through different types of electronics. Rosen then shifts to the challenges to the ethos of multitasking warning the reader about the dangers of using electronic devices while driving by referring to recent studies that have been conducted. She then moves to a paragraph that conveys and supports her theory by identifying and providing a specific example, in which a psychologist warns the reader that too much multitasking can lead to a disorder called "Attention Deficit Trait". Rosen continues on through her article by establishing more credibility for her reasoning, where multitasking is detrimental to a person's well-being by evaluating more studies done in the medical field. Rosen describes the affect<<sp>> multitasking has on young children in the modern days, she calls it media multitasking, which is the simultaneous use of

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