Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Is Google Making USupid'

Everyday millions of people across the globe use the internet; many never even leave the computer desk. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” the author Nicholas Carr, brings up the point that our brains are losing their attention span. He explained that many, including himself, are finding it harder to read long groups of text and articles. Though Carr brings up a good point, his argument lacked factual information, was a little dull, contained next to no credible sources, and is all over the board with he’s ideas, all of these things made his argument weak. Carr’s opening paragraph really grabs your attention, by using quotes from the movie A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick’s. ““Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.” I can feel it, too.” His use of appealing words and connection to a widely known movie in the early 2000s; draws in the audience he wants to attract. Though his audience isn’t completely clear, one can assume them to be middle aged adults; the people who can still remember a time before computers were widely used.

He gets off topic many times; and starts rambling about things like the printer press replacing computers. At one point, he’s talking about clocks and you find yourself asking how is this relevant? Carr, somehow, wrote this whole article without ever diving deeply into the original topic. Every paragraph is something new, him talking about a new subject that barely relates to the original topic of this essay, and he struggles to make connections we can understand. In his effort to keep your attention he uses fancy word play. Saying things like, “Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”, and “The human brain is almost infinitely malleable.” But, even with this, his article is dull. It throws around too much long stretched information that has little to do with the