Claim-- The increasing use of the internet has caused people to lose their concentration on other activities such as reading or researching. Because people have adapted to the instant access of information, they can no longer adjust back to the tedious work of having to search through a book for what they are looking for.
Statement of Claim-- And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
Subclaim 1-- No one is thinking the way they used to think.
Support 1-- Carr states that his concentration drifts as reads a book only after a few pages. He becomes fidgety and has to "drag" his mind back to what he is reading.
Subclaim 2-- The web is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Support 2-- The ability to access a huge amount of information so quickly is a huge benefit to thinking. Although it is a benefit, Marshall McLuhan states that media shapes the process of thought. One's mind takes away information in which the Net distributes it.
Subclaim 3-- The human brain has the ability to be rewired.
Support 3-- James Olds states "even the adult mind is very plastic." When new technologies are introduced, our minds rewire themselves to accommodate the new way of thinking that the technology brings about. When Friedrich Nietzsche bought his typewriter, one of his friends noticed a difference in the style of his writing.
Warrant-- Carr assumes that his readers use the internet whether it be for research, reading, or recreation.
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