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• Support #1: “I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” (Carr, Para. 1)
• Support #2: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minute.” (Carr, Para. 2)
• Support #3: “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” (Carr, Para. 3)
• Main Premise: Though certainly being a useful evolutionary advancement, platforms of media can cause deterimental effects to the human thinking process if overused.

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Support: “I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do” (Carr para 1).

Support: “[Media] supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought” (Cara para 3).

Support: Even when surrounded by pages of information, most people tend to choose easily accessed information through online search engines rather than flip through a book (The New Yorker).

Main Premise: Although access to published works has become extremely accessible due to the growth of media, the ability to reach information quickly and directly has drained the patience and focus we held to read and comprehend more difficult works.

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Support 1: “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy...Now my concentration starts to drift,” (Carr 1).
Support 2: “the Net is becoming a universal medium... The advantages of having immediate access... of information are many,” (Carr 3).
Support 3: “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought... the Net seems to he chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation,” (Carr 3).

Although we have excelled in technology and are able to quickly gain and share information to the world, we pay the price of handicapping our brains in the way we think and process information.

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Support 1: "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle," (Carr 1).

Support 2: "Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes," (Carr 2).

Support 3: "They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought," (Carr 3).

Main Premise: Technology has advanced to the point where books are deemed useless, books are shown to be old-fashioned, slow, and a waste of time, but the boom of technology has impacted the human mind negatively.

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Support 1: “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy...Now my concentration starts to drift,” (Carr 1).
Support 2: “the Net is becoming a universal medium... The advantages of having immediate access... of i
Support 3:

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Support 1: “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” (Carr, paragraph 1) — The internet is a system that fosters diverted attention.

Support 2: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” (Carr, paragraph 2) — In Roz Chast’s cartoon, there is a man sitting in a library with his laptop & disregarding the numerous shelves of books behind him, all watching him.

Support 3: “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” (Carr, paragraph 3) — We have become so accustomed to flickering through the internet that we see it as the main source for acquiring information.

Main Premise: The internet runs the way we focus & influences us to be averse to obtaining knowledge independently.

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Support 1: "My mind isn't going- so far as I can tell- but it's changing." (Carr, Par. 1)
Support 2: "Even when I'm not working...or just tripping from link to link to link." (Carr, Par. 2)
Support 3: "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles." (Carr, Par. 3)
Main Premise:

"The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." (Carr, Par. 1), ("Shelved", Chast)

The rise of new technologies has made the use of classic forms of research, such as scouring books for information, nonexistent.

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Support: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.”
Support: “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle”
Support: “Media are just not passive channels of information.”
Main Premise: Our reliance on technology and its quick and easy distribution of information has made it difficult for us to think critically for ourselves

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Support 1 "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (Carr Para. 1)
Support 2 "A few Google searches, some....quote I was after." (Carr Para. 2)
Support 3 "My mind now expects....in a swiftly moving stream of particles" (Carr Para. 3)
Main Premise- The extended use of the internet has caused us to lose the joy and struggle that manual searching and books can bring us, making us dependent on the need for swift answers in equally swift time. Time thinking, and evaluating the information given in overruled by the seduction of easy answers and easy to understand guides; making a lag within the educational system.

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Support: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Carr 2)

Support: “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages” (Carr 1)

Support: In this cartoon, it shows a man in a room full of books simply on his computer, and it looks to be featured as a magazine cover. This shows how it has become a norm for people to go to “Google” as their first source, rather than searching through books.

Main Premise: In modern society, internet usage has dimmed the lights within the minds of millenials. No longer will they have the drive nor the patience to search for deeper knowledge, but would rather get immediate results with just skimming through without full understanding of context.

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Support: "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (Carr Para. 1)
Support: "..[media can] also shape the process of thought" (Carr Para. 3)
Support: "My mind now expects to take in information.. in a swiftly moving stream of particles" (Carr Para. 3)
Main Premise: Media and the internet has normalized quick flow and process of information to the point where deep reading and contemplation becomes increasingly difficult for readers.

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Support 1: "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
Support 2: "Research that once required days... can now be done in minutes."
Support 3: "...Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation"
Main Premise: With advanced technological usage, people have become accustomed to reading online with ease and short attention span while having lost the capability of reading physical text with careful apprehension.

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Support: "Immersing myself in a book or lengthy article used to be easy" (Carr 1).
Support: "Research that once required says... can now be done in minutes" (Carr 2).
Support:"...the Net seems to be... chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation" (Carr 3).
Main Premise: With the rise of the Internet, we have abandoned seeking knowledge organically in favor of watered down methods.

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Support: "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." (Carr Paragraph 1)
Support: "Research that once required days ... can now be done in minutes." (Carr Paragraph 2)
Support: Technology is quickly replacing books because it holds a large amount of information in one medium. (The New Yorker)
Main Premise: Due to the increased availability of the internet, people have been resorting to it over books. As a result, the familiar fast pace of information absorption of the internet led to a lower capacity for concentration and contemplation.

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Support 1: “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (Carr Par.1)
Support 2: “...chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr Par.3)
Support 3: “My min now expects to take in information...in a swiftly moving stream of particles” (Carr Par.3)
Main premise: Even though we have access to resources like Google, the habit and changes undergone through usage of technology can negatively impact a person.

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Support:"The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle"
Support:"my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles"
Support: "the Net seems to be... chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation."
Main Point: Even though the internet "can be an enormous boon to thinking" and has many benefits, it greatly affects our minds such as our attention span, ect.

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support 01: "The deep reading that used to come naturally to me has become a struggle." Carr par. 01
support 02: "Research that once required days in the stacks of periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes." Carr par. 02
support 03: "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it" Carr par. 03
main premise: Our easy access and frequent use of the internet is modifying the way we think and process information.

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Support 1: “the deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (pg 170)
Support 2: “[the Net] is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (pg 171).
Support 3: A man is tuning out the “voices” of the books and signifies he cannot interact with them because of technology. Instead of “talking with the text” he must rely on a screen. (Chast)
Main premise: Technology whittles down the ability to interact with and comprehend books.

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Support 1: "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages." (Carr para. 1)
Support 2: "My mind expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles." (Carr para. 3)
Support 3: People often prefer the internet's endless stream of entertainment rather than the finite pages of a book ("Shelved" Chast).

Main Premise: The widespread use of the internet has eroded the concentration abilities of society.

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Support: ''I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.'' (Carr, 1)

Support: ''The media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of though, but they also shape the stuff of thought.'' (Carr, 3)

Support: ''And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.'' (Carr, 3)
Deep reading that involves critical thinking and analysis, an active approach rather than a passive one, is, in the modern day, uncommon and shocking. (Chast)

Main Point: The Internet's control of the public's minds has altered the way of thinking, from a more self reliant, creative sense, to a completely controlled and passive experience.

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Support: "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (Paragraph 1)
Support: "Research that once required days... can now be done in minutes." (Paragraph 2)
Support: "Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation" (Paragraph 3)
-> 'Shelved' (pg. 174): Internet is keeping us from being involved in deep reading.
Main Premise: The internet along with its technological advancements, ultimately alters our desire to be immersed in books as well as affects our ability to focus and pay attention.

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Support #1: “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”
Support #2: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” The cartoon supports this idea because it demonstrates how the internet has become society’s primary source for gathering new information rather than using traditional books.
Support #3: “media are not just passive channels of information.”
Main premise: The abundant use of technology has lead to the abandonment of Books. This has caused us to depend on the internet for quicker answers and not being able to critically think for ourselves.

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Support 1: “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages... The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”
Support 2: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.”
Support 3: “And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.”
Main Premise: The prominence of the internet has decreased our capability to absorb and understand information, and has forced us to find the quickest solutions to our problems rather than understanding each step towards the end. (The focus is put more on finding the solution rather than knowing it.)

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Support: “...dragging my wayward brain back to the text” (Carr para.1)
Support: “...immediate access to... rich store of information” (Carr para.3)
Support: More time has been spent on the internet than physical published works (The New Yorker)
Main Premise: The excessive time easily spent on media rather than physical published works has reduced the timespan for focus and contemplation.

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Support 1: Internet search engines encourage the use of quick information and discourages thorough evaluation or contemplation on information (“A few Google searches...was after.” Par. 2)
Support 2: Technology causes a trend and distracts people from using other credible sources that are at their disposal (“Shelved” Roz Chast picture)
Support 3: Technology is quick and simple to use which decreases attention span and weakens general concentration (As the media theorist...of thought.” Par. 3)
Conclusion: According to media theorist Marshall McLuhan, media shapes the process of thought. Technology is not a beneficial way to gather information because it discourages throrough evaluation, distracts people from using other credible sources of information, and weakens concentration.

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Support- “the deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”
Support- “ research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.”
Support- “And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.”
Main point- Although technology makes people’s life more convenient, but it reduce people’s ability to think and focus.

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Intro: With technological advancements, there is controversy on how it affects our attention spans. Some will even argue that it hasn’t gotten to the point where humans have a shorter attention span than goldfish. ...

Support 1: “concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages” (Carr 1).

Support 2: “the Net... [decreases] capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 3).

Support 3: In a 2010 October edition of athe New Yorker, the cover of the magazine displays a cartoon: a man surrounded by books but chooses to get all his information from his laptop —> He doesn’t seem interested and/or aware of the vast and variety of sources and knowledge that surrounds him. Prefers the laptop bc it is more “efficient” and is nice for getting the quick facts.

Main Premise: Technology ultimately makes us less aware and more impatient.

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Inductive Outline (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) - Maylee Tan

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Inductive Outline (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) - Maylee Tan

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Support 1 - "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (Para. 1)

Support 2 - "Research that once required days...can now be done in minutes" (Para. 2)
- This is similar to the visual of a man who is distracted by his music and laptop. He is ignoring the shelf full of books behind him.

Support 3 - "media are not just passive channels of information" (Para. 3)

Main Premise - The Internet drives the human mind into a new reality with its quick supply of information which alters the ability to focus.

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Talking about the internet and it’s consequences, Nicholas Carr states, “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.”. Which is relevant because how our thinking process’  work, is what leads to our decision making and eventually our actions.
Describing it as “the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.” Carr pinpoints how the mind can be reconstructed with the internet by its easy accessibility.
In the photo by Roz Chast, you can clearly distinguish a man on a laptop in a library with the books with an expressional unease. It is clear that the irony is in the man using the computer when there’s books all around him with better sources. You can also infer that the books know the internet isn’t realiable which is why they were drawn with those facial expressions.
If you’ve felt like you’ve gotten less smart over the years Nicholas Carb has the problem all figured out in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. You can clearly see in all of these sources that the internet is taking over not only our lives but our minds. We let it be relied on when it shouldn’t, and block us from thinking on our own. If the internet can take control of us with ease, who’s to say it won’t ruin us?

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support: “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
support: “...chipping away at my capacity for concentration...”
support: (pg174) (image of man w/ laptop sitting behind rows of books) —Internet is distracting us from being able to immerse ourselves in books.
main premise: The internet or Net, has taken away our capacity for patience and attention.

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Support: "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." (Para.1)
Compares & contrasts the two forms of research
Support: "net seems to be doing...is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation" (para.3)
The web has a slow but evident effect
Support: "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." (Para.3)
Can't truly ever "dive deep" into something using only the internet
Maim premise: Although the web has it's countless advantages, overtime, it has begun to negatively affect our capacity for literary research and everyday focus.

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Support: “...remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory” (par. 1)
Support: “...deep reading...has become a struggle” (par. 2)
Support: “...chipping away...capactiy for concentration and contemplation” (par. 3)
Main premise: Because of the reliability on the Web, people are becoming hostile to books, resulting in the inability to work some of their brain functions.

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Support: “deep reading...has become a struggle”
Support: “research that once required days...can now be done in minutes” —> image supports this with stacks of books being ignored (the size of the library vs. laptop)
Support: “media are not just passive channels of information”
Main Premise: technology has made us reliant on searching for quick answers rather than using our brains and thinking critically.

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Support- "Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes."
Support- "Now my concentration starts to drift after two or three pages."
Support- "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distribute it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles."
Main Premise- The ongoing development of technology in modern society has shaped our thought process, along with our attention span.

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Support: Research which used to take hours in a library to find now only take a few minutes on a website to collect and use.
Support: The internet is becoming a universal medium which is the same source of all information entering our eyes, ears, and our minds.
Support: Our brains are learning to take in new information the same way the internet provides it, smooth and fast.
Main Premise: While the internet isn't always presented as a vast database which millions of people use to conduct research they would never have been able to without it, it incomparable to any other media we have ever had and chances are it isn't going away any time soon due to its integration within school systems, work type environments, and government and political arenas.

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Support: “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.”
Support: “...chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.”
Support: “...Net is becoming a universal medium, conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears into my mind.”
Main Premise: Although Google, and a lot of of other websites, may be useful for finding information, it is ultimately ruining our brains by decreasing our attention span and our ability to think a bit deeper.

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Our attention spans continue to shorten as time goes by and technology develops. We no longer desire to spend the time reading a lengthy book or poem. Quote Nicholas Carr, "My concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages." Perhaps this is due to the way most of our information is now presented to us; social media.  With media, the information provided to us is quick and simple, accessed with a few taps of our fingers.  Carr also writes, "Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes." But this fast information comes at a cost. With this new medium of data, our brains are changing. "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles", concludes Nicholas Carr. While we are accessing information quicker, the internet may in fact be hindering our intelligence, and dragging our minds.

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Main Premise: Technology ultimately makes us less aware and more impatient.

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Support: “the deep reading that used to come natural has become a struggle”
Support: “the net is becoming the universal medium”
Support: “my mind now expects to take information the way the net distributes it”
Claim: although the internet may be used for great things such as research and data collection, the internet is causing peoples attention spans to go away so much faster. Our attention span is so short, it has become hard to even do things such as read a book.

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Support: As time goes on the web database is constantly updating and renovating itself. New facts are uploaded almost every minute from different sources around the world. “Research that one required days in the stacks of periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” (p.2)
Support: While using books or other tools for research seems to be respectful, there is a large chance the evidence used is outdated by several years. This isn’t to say books are not still used in studies, but to question if the growth of the internet should be seen as such a negative thing. “deep reading...struggle” (p.1)
Support: Understandably, our intelligence can be questioned as our tools advance. Our attention span has began to decrease in return for quick access to the information we need. However this isn’t a total horrible outcome. We are being conditioned to skim the pages to find what we are looking for instead of taking in all the information. “I get fidgety...else to do.” (p.1).
Idea: The idea of changing from our original customs or traditions that seemed to work doesn’t sit well with every person—but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t welcome the devices with open arms. As times change, life won’t be the same as before, but is that a bad thing?