Nov 24 Homework

Carr’s claim- The internet is taking away our capacity for concentration and contemplation.

Subclaim- Currently seen as a result from almost two decades with the internet, there has been a decline in the remembrance of what we read today.

1. Claire Handscombe a graduate student at American University that Rosewald interviewed stated, “It’s like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking in what they say,” she confessed. “When I realize what’s happening, I have to go back and read again and again” (Rosewald 1).

-This quote support my claim about remembrance in that it has been lacking in recent years. Also it is following up on the idea that the internet has altered our concentration from all the skimming and skipping we do on online reading. This quote will coincide with Carr’s claim but repel Thompson’s.

2. “The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper” (Rosewald 1).

-With all the time spent today by students and adults on the computer it is easy to see why we are more comfortable with the internet copy of a text rather than a hard copy. Sadly though accompanying the online copy is the style of reading we perform now with it. Skipping and skimming from one page to the next. Adversely, the reading we do when we use a hard copy is more in depth and concentrated. This quote will fall behind Carr’s argument and repel Thompson’s.

Works Cited

Carr, Nicholas. Is Google Making Us Stupid? Atlanta: The Atlantic, 2008. Print.

Rosewald,  Michael. Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming,

researchers say. Washington: Washington Post, 2014. Print.

Thompson, Clive. Public Thinking. The Penguin Press, 2013. Print.