Example of Forwarding:
For this blog post, I have decided to write a completely new blog and incorporate illustrating, one of the ways to forward, into the new post. I will use my previous post about the New York Times to add as an example to my argument of how Hedges and Carr is correct when he states that the younger generation only reads what the eye finds interesting and the use of skimming. With a quote out of my previous blog post, my argument that Carr and Hedges is correct will be stronger because it provides a good example.
Hedges and Carr strongly believes that the constant use of the web and new technology has cause a downward spiral in today’s literacy. They believe that due to the new technology and the web, the younger generation has begun to read and write less as well as lose their abilities to become a deep reader. Car states that the younger generation only skims through reading material. They are incapable of staying focus and are always distracted by things around them. In a blog called BlogNasty, the blogger says,
“I have only read articles that have immediately interested me. As bad as that seems, it is an improvement from not reading the news at all. I have tendencies to focus more on the big named stories and skim through the small articles on the sides of the paper.”
BlogNasty is admitting to the exact same allegations that Hedges and Carr’s has presented. He is among many younger generations that this information pertains too!
Quoting yourself was pretty creative when arguing about the same topic. The quote also extended pretty well, but i feel you could have extended your idea even further. Perhaps by talking more about whether or not it's an issue that young readers do this or not, and bringing Hedges and Carr's ideas even further.
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