Similarities Between Where The Women Are And Is Google Making USupid

Ninety-one percent of all adults have their mobile phone with arm’s reach every hour of every day. This statistic should be surprising, but it really isn’t when you look at how much we use technology in our daily lives. These two articles both discuss technology, but in many different ways. While the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” has a similarity to “Where the Women Are” in the broad topic of technology, they differ in speaker, occasion, purpose, subject, audience, tone, and appeals used. The first difference between these two articles is who is telling the stories, the speakers. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, the speaker’s name is Nicholas Carr. In “Where the Women Are”, the speaker’s name is T.L. Taylor. While these two speakers

“Is Google Making Us Stupid” is written because of the increasing amount of people who have seen their attention span Decrease thanks to fast accessibility to any information from search engines such as google. While “Where the Women Are” was written because people believe that girls do not play video games. The occasions these articles were written for are very different. Between the two articles, the involvement of technology is one of the only similarities. The purposes of these two articles are directly related to the occasions for which they were written. The purpose of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” is to address the issue of technology overtaking our lives and shortening our attention spans, while “Where the Women Are” addresses the stereotype that women don’t play or enjoy video games. Even though both of these purposes are based on ideas involving technology, they are very different from each other in most other

Knowing one’s audience is essential for writing a successful article. You can tell Carr wrote his article for for a more casual reader, and Taylor wrote for a scientific audience for several reasons. Firstly, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” was published in a magazine, while “Where the Women Are” was part of a scientific book. Secondly, the tone Carr uses in his article is different from the tone Taylor uses. In his article, Carr uses less serious vocabulary, while Taylor uses vocabulary that reflects the fact that she has a Ph.D. You can tell that Carr wrote for a magazine, while Taylor wrote for a scientific book. Besides the tone used in each article, you can tell that the audiences the authors wrote for were different based of of the appeals used. In Carr’s article, he uses logos (appealing to logic), as well as ethos (appealing to the authors legitimacy) in ample amounts. While the bulk of his content is facts (logos), he uses ethos by talking about his personal experience with technology and a shortening attention span, and how it is affecting his daily life. On this topic, Carr says, “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain…”(Carr 394). On the other hand, Taylor packs her article to the brim with Logos.