Quotation Sandwiches

a.

• "Nielsen focuses on how to hold people's attention to convey information. He's not overly concerned with pleasure reading" (Agger 3)
  
  
• "We have to teach our minds how to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand." (Carr 3)

b.

• Agger states that, "Nielsen focuses on how to hold people's attention to convey information. He's not overly concerned with pleasure reading" (Agger 3). Agger's point is that when writing online, as a writer you have to write in a way to keep the readers attention and not in the way a writer would want too.

I chose this because when writing in my essay about Lazy Eyes I talked about the meaning of the article which was how to read online. In the article he talked about how he had to write as a writer himself online and the main focus was to keep the reader interested.

• Carr himself writes, "We have to teach our minds how to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand." (Carr 3). Carr’s point is that the Internet is making us so we don’t have to think and in the long haul, making us stupid. So the only knowledge our minds get is when we have to find a deeper meaning of the language we use and how we understand it.

I chose this because in my essay I use the article Is Google Making Us Stupid and talk about how Carr defines the Internet and the information/knowledge people are gaining and how it is nothing near the amount we need to keep our minds growing.