In Nicolas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he uses the rhetorical patterns to try to compare and contrast his point of view to his audience into believing that due to the web our lives have changed and work for the worst. Although I think the internet is changing us for the better. By choosing Carr’s essay, I will focus on his writing in terms of examine his rhetorical patterns, explain how he uses them, and whether the rhetorical patterns he used had the desired effect on the reader. The writer decides to use compare and contrast strategies in his essay to show us the differences from the past and present and how he feels how the internet changed not only himself, but others as well due to the growing of the Net. Although Carr has his own experience from the past and present effects of the web. In the essay, he stated, “It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense.” For example, people do not read the entire articles online like they used to read them on books back then. In today’s society, people just read articles to skim the information and bounce from page to page losing focus on only one site. …show more content…
He writes about the way he loses focus on the text and he is “dragging his wayward brain back” to whatever he reads. His rhetorical pattern that he used in his essay is good illustrated because he is trying to show his struggle to the readers in how he used to be fully immersed in a book but now due to the Net, he just skims the readings, and he does not get to see what the information is about. Carr writes, “Never has a communication system played so many roles in our lives…- as the internet does today”. In result, we are becoming dependent upon