Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Is Google Making USupid?'

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.
Carr captures his audience's attention by using an allusion from “Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001, A Space Odyssey”. He stated the essay with “Dave, stop will you?” and the Supercomputer HAL plead. Any reader who has watch A Space Odyssey or interested in supercomputers to read his article. He highlights the fact that a computer could think for you. The states, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain(Is google making us stupid? By Carr page 2)”. He made a point that the more people are found of the internet the more we lose ability to deep think.

Carr appeal to ethos making a connection with the reader.

He knows that people use the internet as a fast way of gathering, instead of reading the information. Carr speak through his experience, as he is one of those people. He wrote the article as is first hand knowledge on the issues. Additional “The net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind (is google making us stupid? by Carr page 2)”. Carr shows the reader he use to be them, who rely on the internet before he became a writer for The Atlantic. He made the reader to trust his opinion in the matter and making him a credible source to

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Carr also use other people's experience to appeal to his audience convincing them that the issue about the internet does exist. In doing that he explain about the bloggers he follow and how they have contact the same issue as him. “Scott a Karp, who writes a blog about online media, recently confessed that he has stopped reading books altogether (is google making us stupid? by Carr page 3)”. Carr indeed use karp to prove his audience isn’t the only one having difficult to read deeply. He use Karp as an example shows the reader, internet as a benefit of getting information not learning the meaning is a problem that exist in society.
Further, Carr use fear and anger to get in the reader’s mind. He use pathos to appeal to his audience if we don’t stop skimming through information online the internet will be adapting our brain. Basically is point with pathos was we let google take control of our brain.He also talks about how the brain can’t function fast as the internet.
The way he use historical to appeal to logos he did the same for pathos. He use the printing press has another way someone thought might change. In is article he made a point that that writing is a way of expanding and typewriter make it easier. Typewriter it a rescue and at the same time has an effect on people. He shows that the more you use typewriter the more your style of writing change.
He also use logos to appeal to his audiences. In doing that he use example provide from the experiment conduct by scholars from University College London about online research habits. The study shows that people tend to skim through information, get distracted from pop up blogs and it also shows they bounce alot. This research work in favor of carr thesis because it making his argument stronger.
He also use historical to appeal his readers for logos. He talks about when clock was invented human being organize their life around it. “Disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world ( Is google making us stupid? Page 6)”. Even though a clock isn’t a internet but is still a technology and it could affect how people think. Internet it a new technology, by using this information carr show that any technology could affect the way we think.
Carr end the first paragraph with “I can feel it” repeating it in the second paragraph making it a smooth transition for the reader to understand. He change his tones a lot in the essay, talking about how technology is a value tools to use and is concerned. Showing both side of his argument, he not against technology but people should take their time understanding what they reading instead of skimming through the information. The tone changing shows how he connect this topic. Also the way he address is issues to his audience was not as a teacher, parent or an experte but as a friend and as someone who has been in their shoes.
In other to convince his reader Carr use ethos, pathos, logos and tones is ideas throughout the article. His ethos focus on how he trying to connect to his audience as a friend and also as a concerned human being and as someone who has experienced the issues. His logos mainly focus on research and historical. His pathos was creating fear, connecting with his reader using personal story. The use of the rhetorical strategy was to convince the reader about the use of technology. n