Daniel Argueta Period 6 08/30/13 Gardner Summary and Analysis Howard Gardner argues that, in the debate over technological advancement and declining literacies, we might soon be entering a new era of literacy that we cannot now envision due to technologies yet to be invented. Literacy is a concern for some experts but others believe that the Internet is just a stepping stone to a greater age of literacy. According to the doomsayers computers are extinguishing literacy. For instance: low reading scores, less leisure reading time, and half the adult population reading no books in a year support the doomsayers’ claims. However, optimists believe that the Internet will bring in a new culture of words.
The deception of their job is smoothed out by Newspeak phrases to rewrite the past. The more it is corrected, the more Newspeak is apparent in older times, so whoever reads records of Oceania will think that the Party was always right and that they could not ever have had a variation in their own memories. Doublethink was a part of the people not acknowledging their memories that actually contradict the records corrected with Newspeak. The most insidious aspect of 1984 is Newspeak because it allows the Party to control what people think, forcing a person to choose the Party's ideas over their own thoughts (which are based on memory and logic, while the Party's are based on Ingsoc), and eliminating unorthodoxy. In the pages of 46 and 47 of 1984, Syme says, “Don't you see that the whole aim of
Hyperbole is the first device that postman uses. The title Amusing Ourselves to Death is a good example. Of course it would be very difficult to actually kill yourself with amusement, but the point he is trying to get across is that our culture responds to entertainment more than to facts. He further shows how this is true in chapter 9 – Reach out and Elect Someone when he states that, “... it was not until the 1950’s that the television commercial made linguistic discourse obsolete as the basis for product decisions. By substituting images for claims, the pictorial commercial made emotional appeal, not tests of truth, the basis of consumer decisions.” (Pg.
When there were automatic looms, the mind was like an automatic loom; and, since young people in the loom period liked novels, it was the cheap novel that was degrading our minds. When there were telephone exchanges, the mind was like a telephone exchange, and, in the same period, since the nickelodeon reigned, moving pictures were making us dumb. When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy. Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the machine is always showing us Non-Mind.”(Gopnik
He believed that it hindered students abilities to perform well in the classroom, he argued that traditional education systems thrive on print technology. McLuhan also looked at media as hot and cool media. Cool media was those that allowed high levels of participation and involvement. Hot media were those that higher information and consequently did not involve the recipient of the message as intensely. Some examples of cool media would be television and the fact that people could watch the Vietnam War on the television, or the bombings of Iraq, or the twin towers getting blown up by planes and the tumbling to ground.
Critiquing an Essay with George Orwell’s six rules In Orwell’s essay he states that it is easy to slip into the bad writing that people have become accustomed to. It is difficult to go against the temptation of using the easy way out with meaningless words or hackneyed phrases that make things easier and require less thought. Orwell concludes that the progressive decline of the English language is reversible and he offers six rules which can help avoid most of the errors in poor writing. In Brenda Chow’s essay The Writer at Work, she breaks many of the six rules that Orwell wrote to avoid the continuation of our language decline. Chow breaks the following 3 rules: never use a long word when a short one will do, never use a simile, metaphor, or other figure of speech which you are seeing in print, and never use a foreign phrase, a scientific or jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Nicholas Carr and Clay Sharkey debate whether or not the internet is actually making us smarter or dumber. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives- or exerted such broad influences over our thoughts, as the internet does today. “that is one of Carr’s viewpoints. Shirkey believes that “every increase in paperback book to you tube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web.
Almost ten years ago a man by the name of David Wertheimer wrote an article in which he claimed that proper grammar was becoming obsolete. The author states that: “We can design and build text a better way that works across numerous communication platforms, solving the problems of built-in obsolescence and user lockout while paving the way toward a far more useful, more accessible, and more speedily shared grammar.” and that “After a long struggle, we can finally employ techniques that guarantee the interpretation of our new grammar.” Wertheimer (2002). From the invention of the
Reading Fluency Glaser and Moats (2008) define reading fluency as the ability to read smoothly and accurately, while using prosody – proper phrasing and expression. Fuchs, Fuchs, Hosp and Jenkins (2001) add emphasis on the reader’s ability to process meaning, relate meaning to prior information, and make inferences (pp. 239-240). In order to become a fluent reader, a student must develop automaticity. Just as a professional musician no longer has to consciously think about time signatures, keys, or techniques, a fluent reader should no longer have to call to mind specific phonics or spelling rules.
Today I want to try my best to persuade you why you should read books. It is a disappointment that nowadays people read books less often due to the widespread of technology Books were v hundred years ago, but with the invention of radio, television, and the Internet and computer games, people careless for reading books.However, once you complete reading a great written book it will have a great effect on it will motivate you to become a better person and increases your knowlage a lot and provide you with great inspiration. Some people argue that television in the present days is much more informative and interacting I agree on that to some extent. Television, on one hand, offers a colourful motion picture, whereas, the books, on the other hand allows you to think imaginatively with the characters in the book and their background story and the atmosphere that the story takes place.There are also people wondering why they would read from books rather than from online websites? spending hours reading from internet can cause you headaches and pain in your eyes, on the other hand books dosent cause you headaches nor problem in your eyes no matter how long you read except if you are reading it from a wrong angle .