Summary Of In Defense Of Distraction By Sam Anderson

The article by Sam Anderson called, “In Defense of Distraction” covers the ways we have been overcome by distractions and by going as far as describing it as a mental condition. He gives a background information of when it all began and examines many expert’s opinion and offer advice to how overcome distractions such as meditation and interesting exercise to accomplish full attention. He does an effective way by including various experts to support his ideas and quoting prestige sources that relate to the topic. Anderson utilizes factual and credible ideas along with emotional appeal to convince his audience that technology could have its good and bad effect on humans. He accomplishes this by exposing facts about distraction and in including

Since Anderson himself is not an expert himself on the matter he had to conduct research first because he is a well-researched journalist. He utilized expertise testimony to make himself more credible and trustworthy to the public who are reading his article. For instance, David Meyer was one of many experts he included; Meyer is known to be an expert in multitasking. Anderson asks Meyer “Are we living through a crisis of attention?” (3). the way Anderson approaches deductive reasoning is by being general with the topic and moving into a specific conclusion. In the question Anderson asks Meyer begins with a generalization of how we as society have become so engrossed in other aspects of our lives that we lack the necessary attention. This was one of the questions Anderson asked the expert of multitasking during the interview conducted via technology. It demonstrated that the author would spend the necessary time and energy to bring relevant experts for the audience to achieve logos

In the first section of the essay Anderson creates dialog by making the audience put away their devices and stop checking their social media. The main goal is get the audience to focus just on him no one else just him and the conversation he is trying to convey through this process. Throughout the interaction he humorously try to relate with the public over sports, family, work e-mail, school-email, music and states to not to look at a blurred picture in his article, to not focus. In the conversation he makes a point that he too has his distractions and is just like “us” with same lack of attention. He relates to the audience making the public want to trust him thus gaining ethos through creating dialog. The audience feels in confidence and connected with the author which makes it an effective use of the appeal of