Expert answer:What are your views on literacy and the internet?

Answer & Explanation:Assignment 3.pdf Read this article than the assignment under the article.No more than 20% should match something already in the Turnitin database.The assignment is expected to be typed in English, in a 12-point font, double-spaced, at least 300 words long, and free of errors in spelling, punctuation, or grammar.
assignment_3.pdf

assignment_3.pdf

Unformatted Attachment Preview

• Literacy and the Internet
s::’-:’v£
THl JDIAS
………..
tlantic
‘NHAT
THE INTERNElIS
DOING
TO OUR BlWNS
–“””
i:ryCV<"Hf.NMVCIi br~TSINCotOO UTTU"tan Ji.I .• !!~.~DIOr.a;j'1 l'.JUS~; HI! t~M( ••• 1'" The Neuroscience Question. Research on how maybe he was suffering "middle-age mind rot." At 47 come to exert a strong and broad influence on both his professional habits as a writer and his personal habits. He wanted information in quick, easy chunks, the more the better. It was addictive, he says.And destructive. Once Carr had enjoyed deep reading. He recalls getting caught up in an author's prose and thinking about twists in plot lines. He would spend hour after hour immersed in a book. No more. Now, he says, his mind drifts after a page or two. He gets fidgety. Deep reading, he says, later? Indeed, was it mind rot? No, Carr says. But how he uses his brain has changed RACI fOR THE ILlCT'IUC CAIt IlMINI5M',s 0l1TY Carr's history as an intemet junkie goes back to 1995 and Netscape, the first web browser. A dozen years later he recognized that the internet had he realized he couldn't pay attention to one thing for more than a couple minutes. Back in college at Dartmouth, Carr loved books and spent hours in the library. So what was happening now, almost 30 years WHY C'RlMl II COMING UCKAHO WHY NO OMI WAN1'S TO fAlX AIOUT f1 ne Nicholas Carr, a widely published technical writer, thought the brain functions is posing questions about whether internet access to so much information is changing how we humans think. Nicholas Carr framed the issue provocatively in the Atlantic magazine. drastically-and not necessarily for the better. He blames the internet. In his book The Shallows, Carr notes that the brain is a creature of habit. Just as a rut in a road deepens with traffic, so do the channels of connec- tivity in the brain. The more he was using the internet over the years, picking up bits and pieces of information, often fragmentary and scattered, the less his brain was working as it once was trained to do. Before the web, he read linearly as the author had intended, going from beginning to end and looking for facts and ideas, making connections, following plots, and assessing rationales. has become a struggle. Even so, Carr acknowledges the wonders and efficiencies of the internet. As a writer he has immediate access to unprecedented stores of data. What once took hours in a library now takes seconds or a few minutes. But at what price? The internet, he says, has been chipping away at his capacity for concentration and contemplation. This worries him. Carr cites friends who have experienced the same phenomenon. And there is research on brain function that supports his theory, although, as he concedes, much more research is needed. No shortage of scholarship exists, however, about positive cognitive aspects of internet use. Katherine Hayles, a postmodern literary scholar, seas less of a threat in the fragmented and nonlinear processes that the internet encourages. To be sure, Hayles says, this "hyperattention," hopping around screens and hyperlinking, is far from the t~aditional approach of cloistering yourself off from the world to concentrate on a written work. But as she sees it, switching through information streams quickly and flexibly has its own value. Hayles calls for "new modes of cognition" that bridge traditional deep attention with internet-age hyperattention. With the superficial engagement of the internet we are losing our ability to pay deep attention. Thisdevaluatien of contemplative thought, solitary thbught .and concentration is a loss not only for us as individuals but also for our culture. Assignment 3 Literacy and the Internet To what extent do you agree with the claim that the "devaluation of contemplative thought ... is a loss not only for us as individuals but also for our culture" or with the claim that «the risk of losing our culture and our abilities to reason are overblown." Provide reasons and evidence to support your point of view. ... Purchase answer to see full attachment

How it works

1. Paste your instructions in the instructions box. You can also attach an instructions file
2. Select the writer category, deadline, education level and review the instructions 
3. Make a payment for the order to be assignment to a writer
4.  Download the paper after the writer uploads it 

Will the writer plagiarize my essay?

You will get a plagiarism-free paper and you can get an originality report upon request.

Is this service safe?

All the personal information is confidential and we have 100% safe payment methods. We also guarantee good grades