At the beginning of our penultimate class, write a summary of your reading of the last chapter and epilogue from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. Think about how Carr approaches his argument and counter-arguments throughout his nonfiction book. How can you incorporate his approach to argumentation in your own writing?

For today’s class, you read Carr’s The Shallows, Nine and a digression. What was his argument in chapter nine, and how does it fit into the overall argument of the book? How persuasive do you find his argument now that we are almost at the end of the book?

For today’s class, you read the eighth chapter of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. Titled “The Church of Google,” it explores how integrated Google is into our experience of the Internet. What else did you learn from this chapter? How does it fit into Carr’s overall argument in the book? Work on this for ten minutes.

For today’s class, you read the seventh chapter from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. Spend the first ten minutes of class writing your summary of the reading. What was his thesis or unity of thought in this chapter? How does his argument in this chapter relate to what he argues throughout the book?

For today’s class, you read the sixth chapter from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. Spend the first ten minutes writing your summary of the reading. Focus on what you identified as this chapter’s thesis or argument. Type up your response and post it as a comment here before we meet next Monday.

For today’s class, you read Carr, The Shallows, Five. Spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of your reading of this chapter. What was Carr’s thesis in this chapter? What were some of the examples that he gives to support his argument? What were some of the names or terms that you researched on your own to help you better understand your reading?

For today’s class, you read the fourth chapter from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. Spend the first ten minutes of class writing your summary of the reading. Remember that you have until before Monday’s class to type and post your summary as a comment to this blog post.

For today’s class, we delved deeper into Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows and read the third chapter. Before we discuss the reading, spend ten minutes to write a summary of your reading in your notebooks. Type up your summary later, and post it here as a comment to this blog post.

For today’s class, you read the second chapter and digression from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows. During the first ten minutes of class, write a brief summary of what you read. What was the main point of this chapter (the chapter’s thesis/unity of thought), and how does its point connect to what you see as the book’s overall thesis/unity of thought? Observing the relationships between the thesis of a chapter and a book is a larger form of the kinds of writing that you do in an essay, except the relationship is between the paragraphs and the essay. In both cases, successful writers sustain a unity of thought that connects together supporting evidence, examples, and counter arguments.

For today’s class, you read Carr’s The Shallows, Prologue and Chapter One. Spend the first ten minutes writing a summary of your reading.

You will have until our next Monday class to type, edit, and post your summary as a comment to this blog post.