Why Nicholas Carr's Internet-Agnostic The Shallows Failed to Capture My Attention

This reading response to Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains contests Carr's claim that constant internet use impacts the ability to read.

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Bridget's feedback:

"I enjoyed reading your engagement with Carr's book. You've done an excellent job presenting Carr's arguments and then responding directly to them. Overall, this is clearly written and organized.

As your reader, I found it a little hard to determine the purpose of the essay. By the last paragraph, there seem to be a few different angles of approach: a reading response to Carr's book, a metacognitive essay about the internet's role in your life as a student, or a response to the question "Why has this book been assigned?" These are all valuable approaches and can certainly be combined into a single essay, but if you are responding to a specific prompt, make this clear in the first paragraph so your instructor immediately sees you understood the assignment. If the assignment is along the lines of "How did you respond to Carr's book" or "Why did Carr write this book?" you're on the right track. If it's a different, more focused prompt ("Why was this novel chosen for first-year seminar students?"), I suggest shifting gears a bit: you may need to change the focus of the introductory paragraph as well as the order of the body paragraphs to ensure the primary focus is on the prompt."

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