Internet Rhetorical Analysis Essay

There are people who have started to believe that Google is doing more harm than good and is making people stupid. They believe that with the use of google information has been changed from knowledge and efficiency to contemplation. Novelist Nicholas Carr, the author of the article, is Google making us stupid is one of the people who believe that Google is making people stupid. He argues that too much internet usage is the reason why people’s concentration span has reduced and after reading two or three pages people begin to look for something else to do. He uses different reports and reflections to support his idea of how the internet affects literacy, cognitive and culture The internet has affected how people process information and causes a distraction.

Carr also uses Scott Karp, an online media blogger, as another example and begun mentioning the phenomenon of reading, confessing that he has stopped reading books altogether. Karp wrote on one of his blogs “I was a lit major in college and used to be [a] voracious book reader” (733). This serves as an example of how people tend to stop reading due to high usage of the internet. He argues that compared to the 70s and 80s people today but the only reason why they do read a lot is that of the popularity of text messaging on phones. This is very different from the traditional way of reading. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense” (734).

Carr further tells the story behind Friedrich Nietzsche. As Friedrich’s sight was failing, he started losing focus on a page, and it would often give him a headache. The feared that he would have to stop writing but once he was able to learn to touch-type. Nietzsche was able to write as if he was blind. Carr lets the readers know that anticipating arguments against a person’s claim is very important if a person wants their essay to be persuasive to the reader. He can convince many of the older audience who knew how life was back then before the internet.   Work Cited  Carr, Nicholas “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Reading and Handbook.