Kashyab Maharjan
Kole Matheson
Engn110
02/02/2018
A Rhetorical Analysis of Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid”
During the last 30 years. A wave of technological innovation has swept over the Earth, blanketing our cultures with Cell Phones, Microwaves and “The Internet”.Emerging from the early 1990’s, the internet has become a vast collection of databases stored by people all around the world, allowing everyone to have access to it from any part of the world.However, in the early years, there were only of websites you could access as the Smithsonian’s exhibit of gems.Even then it was popular as tech-cartoonist Scott Adams.These pages were slow to load and crashed as often as they worked.This made customers frustrated and angry.There was something
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After all his reasoning he appeals to the audience’s emotion.He talks about Google’s mission,” to create perfect search engine”.Then with the next paragraph, he says”where does it all end?” which becomes a turning point.Though he gives us information about what the founder believes but also give a notion that he does not believe them at all.It seems he is mocking them by using words like “pancake people” and “haunting” to give an understanding.
After going through the article, our way of thinking over the internet has changed.The way he has presented all this is easy to understand to people who lived through them but it may be difficult to understand for the young generation like me.With better claim supporting his arguments, the articles could have been presented in a better
In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” the reader finds all three methods of persuasion, ethos, pathos, and logos in emphasizing his point that Google is possibly making people stupid; but it is ultimately the people who cause their own mental deterioration. His persuasion is a reminder to people of the importance of falling back on the “traditional” ways of reading. He also understands that in skimming an article one has the ability to retain what is necessary. Carr himself points out that in the past he was better able to focus on what he read and retain the information. However, now he exercises the process of browsing and skimming over information, just as many individuals have come to do in this day and age.
Anecdotes have become very influential in the forming of opinions. We often base our decisions off customer reviews or personal recommendations, rather than product labels or factual records. Though it is still important to cumulate and explore the proper avenues of information, it can be challenging to decipher between quantitative and qualitative data these days. Nicholas Carr finds an effective balance of anecdote and research in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He begins to illustrate his theory to the reader by starting off with a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where a supercomputer nearly kills a man. To accurately assess whether this connection is effectively executed, we must analyze the relationship between
Have you ever been reading online, and just cannot concentrate? If you have, you're not alone. American Author, Nicholas Carr was a Harvard graduate, who wrote "Is Google making us Stupid." This non-fiction news article informed us about how modern day technology affects our learning or reading. With all this information Carr, explains how google is making us stupid. Nicholas Carr uses Ethos, which is an appeal to authority and credibility. He uses Pathos, which is an appeal to your emotions. He also uses logos, an appeal to logic and reason. Nicholas Carr developed his thesis by including ethos, pathos, and logos.
Writers have different way of getting their point across, for example in the article “is google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. He makes the argument that Google is a convenient tool but is making us less able to process deep information. He use ethos, pathos, logos and tone to prove his thesis in the article. In other words he inform coming generation the consequence of overuses internet. The title and the way he started draw is reader into the article.
The article by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid, Carr main argument is as the Internet has become an integral part of our society is changing the way we process information to a simply way of processing information. My interpretation of Carr main argument is that the Internet has made it harder to process complex information and now rendering to process information in a simply manor. The reason he accomplished expressing his argument in a effective manor was his use appeal to Karos, Ethos & Logos; also, with the aid of rhetorical devices.
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Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and Sherry Turkle’s “How Computers Change the Way We Think” both discuss the influence of technology to their own understanding and perspective. The first work by Nicholas Carr is about the impact technology has on his mind. He is skeptical about the effect it could cause in the long term of it. He gives credible facts and studies done to prove his point. While Sherry Turkle’s work gives a broad idea of the impact of technology has caused through the years. She talks about the advances in technology and how it is changing how people communicate, learn and think. In both works “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “How Computers Change the Way We Think” the authors present
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In the articles, “How Facts Backfire” and “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Keohane and Carr explain the cognitive blocks we are faced with in society. Keohane explains how we can be misinformed because of our beliefs. These beliefs can cloud our judgement of what is true and what isn’t true. Carr focuses on how the internet has changed the way we think. Carr includes how the internet can distract us, making tasks harder to complete. Both Keohane and Carr show us the negatives side effects of cognition.
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