Does The Internet Make You Dumber By Nicholas Carr Analysis

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The essay under analysis is “Does the Internet Make You Dumber “by Nicholas Carr who writes about technology. His main point in this essay is to tell people about how the internet is affecting people in a negative way. This essay was written in 2010 at which the time internet began to be more and more popular. With the sudden rise of the internet Carr wrote this essay to explain how the internet is distracting people and making them unfocused. This essay was first published in The Wall Street Journal.

The author’s main purpose is to persuade people not to use the Internet as much. Carr is trying to show people how the internet is damaging their brains. He also talks about how multitasking is hard for people who are heavy internet …show more content…
Carr sophisticated writing style cause people to ignored his essay because they might not know all the words he uses chose. Even though Carr has great points in this essay he fails to give people the all information they need to know in his essay. Carr uses of this high level writing style is great for the people he wrote this essay for but he could have written this for people with who don’t have the same education level as the general audience in which he intends to read this. This essay is also informative to people. Carr put some information points in his essay to show his ideas on the internet. Carr use very accurate information in this essay to help people understand. He provides logical and reasonable ideas to help people with the internet.
This essay has some interesting resting points, but I disagree with the Carr because even if the Internet makes us unfocused, the Internet has made it easier for people to get information. Carr is trying to persuade people to not use the internet as much, but he should know that almost every company or everyone has internet. Even Though Carr use very good opinions on the Internet I felt like he was missing something in this
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