He investigates how the media and tools we use shape the development of our thinking and considers how we relate to and think about our brains. Carr explains the cause and effect of how Internet impacts our thinking, reading, writing habits, and how our brains react to the media. Carr gives his explanation with many arguments; he starts with his own personal acts. Throughout the beginning of the story, Carr argues whether our reading and writing habits may be affected by the internet. Nowadays, within one minute searching with the toolbars, the great databases of the Internet will immediately bring the information to us.
Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) - Xuan Zhou Sign In Xuan Zhou Home Blog Educational Experience Professional Experience Contact Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) By XUAN ZHOU on September 9, 2010 6:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks SEARCH THIS BLOG Full Text Search Tag In his article, "Bring Back Flogging," columnist Jeff Jacoby tries to tell us about the deficiency of today's criminal justice system and to persuade us to bring back flogging as a punishment for certain crimes. His title clearly and directly states his thesis. Techniques such as evidence and assumptions are used in this essay to persuade readers.
Feed, a dystopian novel written by M.T. Anderson is based on information technology and data mining in a failing futuristic society. The novel describes Titus and his friends living their lives by suggestions, such as advertisements, from the feed, as well as the knowledge that the feed not only provides them with information instantly, but manipulates their decision making. The dialogue in this novel is distinguished because Anderson has the ability to draw in readers with quick dialogue, unique slang, curse words and grammatically incorrect language. However, this reflects the way the feed has degraded the vocabulary and intelligence of those who have it.
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr Thesis: As the Internet becomes our primary source of information, it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of flattening human experience even as it offers the benefits of knowledge efficiency and immediacy. 1) The author begins the article with a description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal, the artificial brain that controls the space ship. 2) The author feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain, making it change.
Essay #4 3/31/14 Cause and Effect A book is something that might be taken for granted, due to the Internet and computers. Some people do not have patience to read books fully and they either use the Internet or just skim through books. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr is a novel that explains some of the things that have helped reading to evolve. Many things like the printing press, books, maps, the typewriter, the Internet, and the Greek alphabet have helped reading to evolve. The printing press is what caused books to become popular.
Not only does Carr believe this but states others, including friends and colleagues are also experiencing this affect. Carr’s goal is to push readers to think more critically about the negative impact internet usage can have on one’s ability to read and articulate articles. Although Carr provides some anecdotal evidence it is not sufficient evidence to prove that Google is making us stupid. In completing a critical analysis of Carr’s essay I will examine both the weaknesses and strengths of his argument and provide research and literature to support my belief that Google is not in fact making us stupid. Carr begins his essay by saying “I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling that over the past few years someone, or something has been tinkering with [his] brain”(91).
Is Google Making us stupid? The essay's thesis is: "The following essay appeared in the July/August 2008 issue of The Atlantic.While the title asks if Google is mak- ing us stupid, the essay examines how not just Google, but technology (typewriters, clocks, the Internet) changes the way we think. Nicholas Carr is author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." Carr begins by writing about how he used to be an avid book reader. It was one of his favorite things to do, but over time he believes the way he thinks changed.
Opening up a book and reading something , that has substance and draws your interest to turn the next page and read more, is what i would call valuable reading. Mr. Carr is saying that we have gotten far away from that . There is a new way in which we are reading. Online users are “power browsing” through titles, contents pages, and abstracts. I personally don’t use the internet much, but when I have used it I found it to be useful.
Abstract John Humphrys’ article “I h8 txt msgs; How Texting is wrecking our language” is a cynical piece about how texting is bad for the English language. He believes that English will deteriorate into acronyms and a mnemonic system. He starts off with explaining his love for the dictionary. Each use of a dictionary leads to enlightenment, according to Humphrys. The newest edition of oxford English dictionary came out; to humphrys’ humor, the new edition “has removed the hyphen from no fewer than 16,000 words.” The fact the hyphen has been removes isn’t what gets to Humphrys, but what he believes to be the reasoning is what shocks him.
He attributes this feeling to the extensive use of the internet and computers, even though this usage of the internet has been to help him write. Carr then notes that he is not the only one having this problem. Carr gives a few examples of bloggers that have said the same thing about reading long articles. Carr suggests that though the internet provides more reasons for us to read, they are different reasons. The internet may not be the source of the problem, but Carr refers to a study done by a college that suggests that there is a chance that it is.