Your response should be an essay which is at least 3 paragraphs long. Your evidence should consist mainly of quotations from the essay, and your analysis and evaluation of those quotations.
Your thesis should probably be that the essay is 1) effective, 2) ineffective, or 3) partially effective in convincing the reader that the author’s world view is correct. You should follow this with a plan of development, laying out your arguments.
I wouldn’t worry about a hook, or a long summary at the end of the essay. While I often encourage synthesis, please DO NOT relate any long stories about your life in your response. That would miss the point of the question and get you a poor grade.
Please write on the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (attached in the file below)
Some questions to consider when writing your response (you do not have to answer these, they are suggestions for ways to approach the issue, the rhetorical analysis prompt suggests many other):
What is his argument?
What is his primary mode of argument (emotional, rational, ethical)?
What evidence does he use to support her arguments?
Does he use the other modes at all? Where, and how effectively?
What is his tone? How do you know? Does it help his argument?
What assumptions does he make? Do you share them?
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