Connotative Language Analysis

In the articles “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and“Executions Should Be Televised”, the modes of discourse make an effective argument for the former and an ineffective argument for the latter. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, there is an example of exposition. Being more precise, it is an example of cause and effect in the tenth paragraph. Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” talks about Friedrich Nietzsche, a man who was going blind. In 1882, Nietzsche bought a typewriter, which significantly helped him. He learned how to type based on touch and could, once again, write. This is cause and effect as Nietzsche buying a typewriter, the cause in this situation, and saving his ability to see and write. Some would

Carr states “the internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information”. He is explaining how something works, which is what process analysis demonstrates. On top of that, Carr also uses connotative language to give off a tone that the computers are unpleasant, especially with the word manipulation. Overall, this article effectively uses exposition to make the argument more effective. Throughout the article, Carr expresses his distaste for how much people rely on computers and artificial intelligence. With the first example, he shows how computers can be used to benefit the human race, but, as the article goes on, he uses words as he did in the second example to show that there can be too much of a good thing and that people are beginning to depend on fake intelligence a little too

As stated by Shemtob and Lat, “We respectfully disagree. Executions in the United States ought to be made public.” This is persuasion as it tries to tell a person about a specific thing by using a belief, not something based in completely unbiased fact. That comes in later, during paragraph twelve. When “because a jury found that his crimes were so heinous that he deserved to die”, this is an argument, which, as stated before, uses facts. The fact is the jury found this guy to have done some horrible things that his death was necessary. One could argue that this is an example of persuasion as it is the jury’s opinion the man should die. Nevertheless, from the writer's point of view, it is fact that the jury made the decision and, therefore, it is a