Rhetorical Analysis Of How Computers Change The Way We Think
“How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle
My Rhetorical Analysis Argument will be over “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. In this article Turkle explains how computers have changed the way we store information, our sense of privacy and our competence to think ahead. Turkle studies the sociology of sciences of mind, a study of the interactions among technical, literary, and popular discourses about the self as they develop in specific social contexts. (Turkle 663)
In this article Turkle expresses how she believes that computers are changing the way we think. Turkle explains how as early as elementary school, children are exposed to computer programs like word processing, email, PowerPoints and the internet. …show more content…
PowerPoint encourages presentation as opposed to conversation. Turkle states that PowerPoint presentations can deviate from discussion rather than encourage it. In “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”, Edward R. Tufte suggests that PowerPoint equates bulleting with clear thinking. It does not teach students to begin a discussion or construct a narrative. (Turkle 666)
Word Processing makes experimentation easier; word processing makes revising text and rearranging paragraphs easier. Word Processor can help students become better writers or bad writers even worse. “The idea of thinking ahead has become exotic. A seventh grader once told me that the typewriter she found in her mother’s attic is “cool” because you have to type each letter by itself. You have to know what you are doing in advance or it comes out a mess. (Turkle 667)
Turkle’s final and most prominent issue is simulation. Simulation has become a prominent part of our culture. Simulation technology is utilized in many aspects of our culture. Turkle felt that in ten years there would be a substantial increase in the use of simulation technology. Our games, our economic and political systems, and the way architects design buildings, chemists envisage molecules, and surgeons perform operations all use simulation technology. (Turkle
My Rhetorical Analysis Argument will be over “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. In this article Turkle explains how computers have changed the way we store information, our sense of privacy and our competence to think ahead. Turkle studies the sociology of sciences of mind, a study of the interactions among technical, literary, and popular discourses about the self as they develop in specific social contexts. (Turkle 663)
In this article Turkle expresses how she believes that computers are changing the way we think. Turkle explains how as early as elementary school, children are exposed to computer programs like word processing, email, PowerPoints and the internet. …show more content…
PowerPoint encourages presentation as opposed to conversation. Turkle states that PowerPoint presentations can deviate from discussion rather than encourage it. In “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”, Edward R. Tufte suggests that PowerPoint equates bulleting with clear thinking. It does not teach students to begin a discussion or construct a narrative. (Turkle 666)
Word Processing makes experimentation easier; word processing makes revising text and rearranging paragraphs easier. Word Processor can help students become better writers or bad writers even worse. “The idea of thinking ahead has become exotic. A seventh grader once told me that the typewriter she found in her mother’s attic is “cool” because you have to type each letter by itself. You have to know what you are doing in advance or it comes out a mess. (Turkle 667)
Turkle’s final and most prominent issue is simulation. Simulation has become a prominent part of our culture. Simulation technology is utilized in many aspects of our culture. Turkle felt that in ten years there would be a substantial increase in the use of simulation technology. Our games, our economic and political systems, and the way architects design buildings, chemists envisage molecules, and surgeons perform operations all use simulation technology. (Turkle