Thursday, February 4, 2010

Toulimin Model about CARR

In this Blog i will be taking the article is 'Google making us stupid?' by Nicholas Carr and putting it up against the Tolumin Model. In this model you seek out five terms which are the claim, statement of claim, subclaims, support and warrants. I will start with the first part of the model which is the claim.
What I gathered to be the claim was that he was trying to explain to the reader that google and other search engines were making us lazy and making us lose the ability to focus or complete the task we were working on. This is something I can agree with to a point but it brings me to question is it the artificial intelligence that makes us lazy or is it our own mental capacity that isn't allowing us to finish. If you have the motivation and drive the search engine isn't going to make you lazy, only you can make yourself lazy not a computer.
The next part of the model is the statement of claim which in other terms is his purpose statement which is the purpose statement or what the author is trying to really get across. The point that i feel Carr is really trying to get across, even though i do not agree with the article, is as he says, "I am not thinking the way i used too". He is trying to make the point that google is ruining the way he used to think and is conforming his mind into what it is and only allows it to skim the surface of the information.
Subclaims are reasons or arguments the author makes to support his claim and make you understand why he feels the way he does, I also believe in my own opinion that this goes hand in hand with support which is the evidence for his subclaims. Carr uses quotes taken from other Internet bloggers along with his own claims that makes it strengthen the claim of the article. All of the evidence that he gives helps to show and prove that his opinion is right. But in my opinion he only gives you his warrants that support the side for his claim. This is not an objective article because he puts all the blame on the search engine and does not hold the person accountable for making himself/herself lazy and lose the ability to think that they once did.

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