Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Carr's main argument is that he believes that reading books is more beneficial to how the mind works than reading online. His main forms of evidence are that the Internet changes the way that people think, distracts people, and only supplies people with information and does not provoke people's thought process or understanding of the topic. He uses the strategy of cause and effect to explain how the Internet affects people's reading strategies and learning tactics. He uses description to explain to the audience how the Internet has affected out lives now and how it is different from years ago. He also uses division and classification. He divides up his ideas about how the Internet affects people's lives and gives explanations about each division.