Response to Is Google Making Us Stupid
In order to prepare for this paper we will read the following article: Nicolas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” To approach this assignment you will read the text carefully and begin to consider some of the following questions surrounding a focused idea presented in the text:
As reader, what was your response to that idea? Why? What of the author’s appeals to emotions, or reason influence your response? Do you trust this author’s knowledge and information? Why or why not? What of your own knowledge, biases, or pre-conceived notions of the issue influence your response?
In your draft, briefly summarize the reading and develop your paper in response to one idea presented by the author. You will draw quotations and examples from the text to support your response.
Information and ideas that you use to support your ideas should be documented with appropriate MLA or APA style in-text citations and a bibliography.
