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ENGL!1130! Dr.!Eve!Preus!

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Notes&on&Carr& ! I’ve!written!these!notes!on!Carr,!“Is!Google!Making!us!Stupid?”!to!demonstrate!how!Carr! must!have!written!an!outline!with!each!of!his!main!points!and!sources!of!evidence!to! support!him!before!he!began!writing!the!piece.!It!would!almost!impossible!to!organize!all! the!sources!Carr!references!without!such!an!outline.!You!will!also!notice!how!each!section! (and!paragraph!within!it)!has!topic!sentences!and!segue!sentences!that!segue!to!the!next! points.!! ! ! Main&Argument:!The!internet!changes!the!way!we!read!and!by!changing!the!way!we!read,! it!changes!our!thinking,!creating!a!new!sense!of!the!self.!Carr!is!critical!of!this!kind!of! thinking!and!the!sense!of!self!it!produces,!claiming…......(what!specifically?)! ! Point&One:&& Argument:!Reading!on!the!internet!weakens!our!capacity!for!deep!reading.!! ! Evidence:!???!(6!people!that!he!references)! ! Point&Two:&& Argument:!Because!reading!is!related!to!neural!processing,!when!we!can!no!longer!read! deeply,!we!change!the!way!we!think!(inference,!though!he!won’t!say!this!till!the!very!end:! we!risk!losing!the!ability!to!think!deeply!as!well).! ! Evidence:!???!Example!after!example.!Who!and!what!does!he!use!as!sources?! ! Point&Three:!! Argument:!What!is!the!Net’s!intellectual!ethic?!Carr!argues!that!in!an!attempt!to!create!the! “perfect!algorithm”!for!knowledge!work—reading,!processing,!writing,!making! connections,!etc—the!internet!standardizes!knowledge!and!becomes!the!ethic!of!modern! communication.!! ! Evidence:!Analogy.!Taylor’s!mechanization!of!the!factory!(division!of!labour)!reinvented! society!and!became!the!ethic!of!modern!industrialization.!What!else?! ! Point&Four:&& Argument:!Applies!this!logic!to!real!example:!Google.!“What!Taylor!did!for!the!work!of!the! hand,!Google!is!doing!for!the!work!of!the!mind”!(156).!Questions!the!assumptions!behind! AI!and!how!it!reduces!thinking!to!mechanical!processes!that!can!be!measured!and! enhanced!(i.e.!as!opposed!to!the!processes!of!contemplation!and!the!ability!to!hold! ambiguity!which!are!also!necessary!to!human!thinking/consciousness.)!Points!out!it!is!in! their!economic!interests!to!have!us!process!quickly,!without!too!much!thinking.! ! Evidence:!What!sources!specifically!does!he!cite?! !

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ENGL!1130! Dr.!Eve!Preus!

! Point&Five:&& Argument:!Plants!a!nay-sayer/critiques!his!own!argument.!The!same!critiques!were! lobbied!against!writing!and!the!printing!press.!Yet,!he!still!comes!back!to!this!notion!of! deep!reading!and!the!now!available!notion!of!deep!thinking!and!even!deep!consciousness.! Makes!a!larger!culture!critique—that!humans!lose!what!makes!them!special,!their! individuality!and!emotional!depth.!!!! ! Evidence:!What!sources!does!he!use!here?! ! !...