Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Is Google Making USupid?'
Major Paper II Rhetorical Analysis: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way that we think and that it diffuses our focus and our ability to comprehend information. Throughout his article, he makes use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to persuade the reader to his point of view on the Internet in a negative way.
One way Nicholas Carr persuades the reader by using Ethos is that he mentions a person who is well versed in the topic about media in general. In paragraph four he mentions Marshal McLuhan and how he provides brief details about the media and how it changes the way we think and comprehend information (Carr 2). This is an example of Ethos because Marshal McLuhan …show more content…
The emotion the author tries to invoke is fear because he wants the reader to be afraid of the Internet. In that specific paragraph, it quotes a scene from the movie where the supercomputer in the spaceship is losing its mind and the astronaut had just taken off into space (Carr 1). The reason why this specific example provokes fear is because when the supercomputer is in control of your destination and it says it's losing its mind then the astronaut is going to die; the reader thinks of the supercomputer as the Internet and how powerful it is that it might cause death. This is really important and plays a big part in the article because in the conclusion he states that the internet is taking over and that humans are becoming more machine-like (Carr 10). Carr tries to make the reader afraid of the future, how we rely on the Internet too much, and the technology will eventually take over the human …show more content…
An example of this is one of his secondary argument about a study conducted by scholars from University College London (Carr 3). This type of argument is a rhetorical example. This particular argument was well supported because it gave specific details how they came to the conclusion that everyone skims when conducting research. For example, the five-year research on paragraph eight where Carr explained how long the students stayed on the website for a short period of time and would hop to the next source of information. His primary thesis would be halfway through paragraph four “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out…. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 2). The reason I bring up his primary thesis/argument because the rhetorical example and this thesis relate to each other in a way that they both talk about the skimming activity. I think the argument was convincing because it provided evidence to back up their claim that the scholars had come to after
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way that we think and that it diffuses our focus and our ability to comprehend information. Throughout his article, he makes use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to persuade the reader to his point of view on the Internet in a negative way.
One way Nicholas Carr persuades the reader by using Ethos is that he mentions a person who is well versed in the topic about media in general. In paragraph four he mentions Marshal McLuhan and how he provides brief details about the media and how it changes the way we think and comprehend information (Carr 2). This is an example of Ethos because Marshal McLuhan …show more content…
The emotion the author tries to invoke is fear because he wants the reader to be afraid of the Internet. In that specific paragraph, it quotes a scene from the movie where the supercomputer in the spaceship is losing its mind and the astronaut had just taken off into space (Carr 1). The reason why this specific example provokes fear is because when the supercomputer is in control of your destination and it says it's losing its mind then the astronaut is going to die; the reader thinks of the supercomputer as the Internet and how powerful it is that it might cause death. This is really important and plays a big part in the article because in the conclusion he states that the internet is taking over and that humans are becoming more machine-like (Carr 10). Carr tries to make the reader afraid of the future, how we rely on the Internet too much, and the technology will eventually take over the human …show more content…
An example of this is one of his secondary argument about a study conducted by scholars from University College London (Carr 3). This type of argument is a rhetorical example. This particular argument was well supported because it gave specific details how they came to the conclusion that everyone skims when conducting research. For example, the five-year research on paragraph eight where Carr explained how long the students stayed on the website for a short period of time and would hop to the next source of information. His primary thesis would be halfway through paragraph four “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out…. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 2). The reason I bring up his primary thesis/argument because the rhetorical example and this thesis relate to each other in a way that they both talk about the skimming activity. I think the argument was convincing because it provided evidence to back up their claim that the scholars had come to after