echnological and makes us not interact with the people around us.

The word diction used throughout Carr’s analysis of the Internet makes the reader lack pathos when word diction of “skimming” and multitasking is used

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He supports this claim by first introducing it through a psychological perspective where he argues the introduction of new things always scares the traditionalists into thinking the progressivism is entirely bad, then he relates it to historical context in discussion of the printing press which he uses as a way to show the benefits of new technology, then he employs pop culture, citing World's Funniest Home Videos and even famous authors and activists. He uses the pop culture aspect to show technology's effect socially. And finally he finishes with a more personal psychological evaluation once again arguing that the introduction of new technology allows for us to "experiment" and "adapt."

n reading thesethree texts, it can be concluded that the positive aspects of the Internet do not outweigh the negative aspects and therefore the Internet has indeed led to the decadence of our cognitive ability and created a culture among humans to be less creative and more purpose-driven as well as less thoughtful and more blindly decisive.

While the other two texts only employ one or two major rhetorical strategies, Carr uses many and in doing so, his argument is much stronger and more credible. The reason why Carr’s argument stands out compared to the others is mainly due to its personal tone and structure. It is structured in a way to begin in a certain fashion, in Carr’s case this was an allusion to pop culture and personal anecdote, and ending in the same fashion while filling the middle with annotations of credibility and fact. Carr strongly argues against the positivity of the Internet which is evident because he fails to even mention the other side of his own argument

hey support this claim summoning ethos and logoswith asurvey that tested the online and offline reading behavior of individuals

My own view is that as humans, we have been set backby the Internet, and that we lack a lot that what we did not use to lack cognitively because of it.In other words, I agree with Carr and can concur that all other arguments must beflawed.

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his plays into appealing to the logos, or logic, as it depicts a more well-rounded argument when portraying both sides

By employing ethos,

Overall, the effects of technology as a whole, and specifically the internet, have changed our cognitive behavior.

The internet was a monumental change within society. This technological innovation has revolutionized the world as it is known, and the magnitude of the change released continues to grow daily. However, the internet’s advances have had both positive and negative repercussions. Many critics have analyzed the relationship between the internet and cognitive behavior.

Overall, Hooper and Herath appeal to logos in their article by using statistical anaylsis.

By employing ethos, Carr’s message, that the internet is detrimental to our cognitive behavior and ultimately changes the way we think, is strengthened. Because ethos is the ethical appeal, the sources that Carr cites in tandem with his narrative are crucial to this device. By referring to scholars such as Scott Karp and Bruce Friedman, who both utilize their blogs to express their declining ability to read in length due to the internet’s shortcuts, Carr is insinuating that due to their scholarly nature, their reading abilities should be superior

Nicholas Carr, in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” evaluates the internet’s effect on the way we think. Likewise, co-authors Hooper and Herath respond to this article, providing their own delineation of the mind and the internet. While Hooper, Herath, and Carr all conclude that the internet has detrimental results on our cognitive behavior, alluding to many outside sources in support of their message, they use different structures and rhetorical devices to reach this conclusion. Overall, the effects of technology as a whole, and specifically the internet, have changed our cognitive behavior.

The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, issubsuming most of our other intellectual technologies

But a recentlypublished study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, suggeststhat we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think. As part of the five-yearresearch program, the scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popularresearch sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational consortium, that provideaccess to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. They found that people using thesites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to anysource they’d already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book beforethey would “bounce” out to another site. Sometimes they’d save a long article, but there’s no evidence thatthey ever went back and actually read it. The authors of the stu