In the article “Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price” by Matt Richtel, we learn about the effects of being consumed by technology as well as multitasking. In the article, Richtel provides us with a real life example of the Campbell’s, and how Mr. Campbell’s addiction almost cost him a lucrative contract for his startup company. Also, we learn about how he could not even enjoy a family vacation without having his technological fix. Richtel also gives us hard scientific facts about the effects of technology and multitasking, such as the fact that multitaskers are less likely to be able to sort out irrelevant information and that multitaskers do worse when trying to juggle between tasks.…
In John Lorinc's essay “Driven to Distraction”, Lornic claims that with the advent of being constantly connected to the internet we are losing our brain's function to concentrate and retain information. He further suggests that by being exposed to constant streams of information, these constant interruptions have caused us to become easily distracted by the need to know what is happening now. Lorinc explains how people have errounously “misappropriated... the phrase 'multi-tasking'”(372) and have used it to describe their quick mental capabilities for handling these interruptions. While the belief is that multi-tasking “seems more efficient”(372), Lorinc challenges that multi-tasking actually “takes more time in the end”(372) due to the context…
In the article “You’ll Never Learn”, Annie Paul describes how multitasking while learning negatively affects students’ memory, grades and more. Paul begins by giving the results of an experiment done on how students study. Many of the students spent a lot of the time texting and on Facebook instead of actually studying. Paul then turns the attention to evidence from psychology suggesting that when students multitask their work ends up being of lower quality than if they would not have. According to researchers, the schoolwork takes longer to finish when multitasking because students waste time on nonsense.…
In the first essay, How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking, the author presents a case against multitasking. The author starts by telling the reader about a past experience with multitasking. He goes on to describe how he had to send three emails in order to convey his message to a client because he was distracted on the phone at the same…
Multi-tasking is “bad for the quality of cognitive work” which lead to a declaration of memory. A study of Stanford reports that multi-taskers cannot focus on subject. They believe they are improving their ability but actually lessening their ability “through over consumption”. A report found on the article claims that “the multitasking on a laptop poses a significant distraction to both users and fellow students and can be detrimental to comprehension of lecture content”: people who multi-tasks have lower grade. As a result, people are decreasing their ability while having a laptop during…
He asked them about their tendencies to multitask and their responses were all along the same line. Their answers showed they all multitasked and felt it was an important method to getting work done. This benefits Watkins’ argument because other college students will be the same way and want to stop after reading his essay. Watkins cemented his purpose with a strong conclusion, which called his audience to action. He urged them to stop multitasking, as it will hurt academically and sociologically. His powerful last sentence explains to the audience that if they continue to multitask and consume huge amounts of media, they may know information, but will lack intelligence. In addition, Watkins notes the potential consequences as being more radical than ever before, which discourages the audience from disobeying him. Overall, Watkins’ essay effectively caters to his audience and provides the necessary support to achieve his…
Multitasking Hurts Performances but Makes You Feel Better, the title says it all. The authors’ main reason for this article is to share the truth about multitasking with the public. The article talks about studies taken on individual students over a period of time and their urge for multitasking. The students who multitasked seem to think that when they are studying and listening to music, watching television, texting, or on the internet that it makes them more productive. In reality the students are only obtaining an emotional boost from doing so. The author argues that when juggling too many tasks that you will perform poorly so you should refrain from doing so. They also claim that if you are a victim of multitasking now, you will most likely continue this trend and make it a habit. “It is critical that we carefully examine the long-term influence of media multitasking on how we perform on cognitive tasks.”…
Reading the article the author wants us to think about how often we are multi-tasking without being aware of it. She wants us to think about the effects this has on our daily activities. Recognizing that multi-tasking is not doing more than one thing productively, but shifting focus which may not be…
Multitasking is something that most teens do in their everyday life. Whether it is during studying time, hangout time, or even family time, teens tend to engage in multiple tasks at the same time. Rebecca A. Clay, the author of Mini-Multitaskers, also agrees with this concept. Her overall main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article, it is made evident of where she stands. Clay makes it blatantly obvious that she feels as though multitasking has a negative effect on the brain as well as the learning development. Clay uses statistics such as “…According to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation…
when she began at the university compared to how it changed over the course of her time there.…
John Lorinc’s article, “Driven to Distraction” explores how the human brain functions while surfing the Internet, writing e-mails and texting every day. In what seems to be a life with “interruptions”, Lorinc attempts to explain how “multi-tasking” and having access to an enormous amount of information has made it harder for humans to think and analyze the collected data. However, Don Tapscott’s excerpt from his book, “In Defense of the Future”, denies that technology has affected the human’s brain and asseverates that the “net generation” has remarkably and positively changed and broadened their aptitudes. Having access to the Internet and electronic devices like cell phones is fairly new in our society. Not long ago BlackBerrys and iPhones…
Tugend believes that multitasking does not mean doing several things while simultaneously tasking. People can and should train themselves to have a longer attention span and focus on a longer task. Society believes that technology and busy lives demand and facilitate multitasking. Attention span…
Most of students were impressive for her. They were engaged in their duty really hard, and tried to take responsibility for their choices. She wants to help such students, because a degree and experiences help students when they have to decide their job.…
When I first read Alina Tugend’s Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um… Focus, I had to sit back and think of all the times I have tried to multitask, and how sometimes they did not turn out that well. Then, I reread her article, without listening to music in the background this time, and I tried to focus as much as I could. When I started to analyze her work, I noticed one major issue, at least for me, in her writing: She only wrote about the smaller things. What I mean, is that if she really was concerned about some of the issues she wrote about, she should have used stronger evidence, and made more of an emotional tie to it. While Tugend brought up many compelling points, she focussed too much on the small details, and completely skipped over the most important evidence.…
For many years taking English classes, I have noticed many weaknesses from my writing and my poor focus to get my work done. Many of the weaknesses are phrase fragment, avoid biased and exclusionary language, vague word and lastly, sentence snarls. The Key for Writers handbook had shown me much descriptive information in very deep details that tell me what or what not to do in my writing. In chapter nineteen, the chapter explains to me what is phrase fragments. Phrase fragments are a group of words without a subject, subject, and a verb.…