a. Cite your selection in MLA style.
b. What is the central message of this text? Please explain it in your own words.
Driven by the ease of access to all information on the internet, people are losing the ability to focus, thus becoming less intelligent and more distractible.
c. How would you define your position as an audience member (resistant, neutral, etc.)? With your own position in mind, what kind of audience do you think the author is trying to reach? Please provide an example to support your answer.
I am neutral about this subject. I use the internet a lot and feel like I have gained a great deal of knowledge from it. However, I do not feel like my retention of this knowledge is as good as it should be. I am distracted by the next question that pops into my head and off I go in search of another answer never really
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What appeal(s) are being used in this text (ethos, etc.)? Give a specific example from the text to support your answer.
e. This appeared to be more Pathos and Logos. An example of pathos would be the following sentence “When we’re constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be when looking at the screens of our computers and mobile phones, our brains can’t to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give distinctiveness and depth to our thinking.” The author used words like “we’re”, “We”’ and “our” placing the reader into the group he is talking about. It was effective because I did identify. For logos the author used a lot of facts and studies in his article to support his views.
f. Did you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not? If you were in charge of editing this example, what would you change? What would you keep the same?
I found the argument persuasive, it had a lot of facts and it drew me into the group he was speaking about. If I were in charge of editing I would not use some of his examples that were not clear such as, “In one experiment at a US university,” I would have named the