Is Google Making Us Stupid?†in which you take a position on some aspect of the text. In other words, experiment with writing an argument about the topic/s covered in the article. You are not expected to engage with all of the aspects of the article; instead, you should focus on just one or two aspects of the article. Feel free to use the “Possible Ways to Respond to a Text†handout as inspiration.
Please integrate at least one of the other sources you read (“Can’t put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains —and lives†and/or “How smartphones make us superhumanâ€) into your paper. By working with two or three sources in one paper, you are beginning to practice synthesis and putting the texts into conversation. Also, please include an introduction and a conclusion for your short argument paper.