Review Rhetorical Context, Summary Of The Article

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The internet has come with a lot more benefits to the users. The current generation can access a variety of resources that has been enhanced for easy readability at little or no costs. Users can read articles, journals, and eBooks from the internet sources just by clicking or searching for the content. This functionality has led us to embrace and change our reading styles today.
Rhetorical Context
The author of the article is Nicholas Carr who has written for the New York Times and also Wired. He focuses on a specific audience, the users of the internet for reading. The purpose of the article is to educate people on the use of online reading and its effects on their brains.
Summary of the article
The article is entirely focused on online reading. The writer seems to be amongst those who have been affected by this kind of reading. He and many others have lost the focus when reading long texts. They find it difficult reading beyond three paragraphs. The article goes on to quote other individuals who have the same story, of reading. It says that the traditional ways of reading have been eroded and has led to a change in our thinking and lifestyle.
Thesis
The content of this paper is typically analyzing the article, the structure and the style of writing used to carry forth the intended meaning to the audience. The central argument of the writer is that reading through the internet has eroded the traditional way of reading.
Body paragraph one
Today the writer says it's hard to focus on long texts like he used to do. He finds himself struggling to read more than three paragraphs since his attention begins to drift away. The author blames online reading for this change. He says surfing through the internet has been the major cause of this. The fact that the writer is able to search for information on the internet has made him lazy. He says, “a few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after.” He supports this argument by providing examples of his friends, meaning that not only he is affected by the implications of the internet but also the other users.
Body paragraph two
The writer argues that the internet has changed his mental habits. He supports this argument through the thoughts of one the bloggers Bruce Friedman who acknowledges losing his ability to read and take in contents of long articles both on the web and printed literature. Seconding Mr. Friedman is a pathologist from the Michigan Medical School who says has also been affected by the quick scanning of texts from internet sources. He only skims the content.
Body paragraph four
The writer poses another argument that research published by scholars from University College London that there could be a bigger change coming in the way we read and think. They examined computer logs that provide access to journals, articles, and eBooks. The people who use the sites for information have improvised skimming activities in that they skip from one source to another one. The users do not read bey...