Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation

Transcript:Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation:
Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation Screening out the downside to technology Tone Question Possible tones: Humorous Conversational/chatty Persuasive Dismissive Ironic Serious/Formal Emotive (to make the reader feel a certain emotion.) Tone Question Paragraph 1 (lines 1-4) differs in tone from the rest of the article. Explain what the difference is and show how the writer’s use of language in the first paragraph helps to achieve this. 4 Psst! Are you troubled by technology? When lying alone in the dark do you ever imagine that your iPhone, iPad and laptop are all ganging up on you; that the master/servant relationship has been revered and that you are now at their beck and call? Ok, perhaps that one is just for my and my personal digital terrors, but it’s clear there’s a lot of fretting over what technology has given us. Psst! Are you troubled by technology? When lying alone in the dark do you ever imagine that your iPhone, iPad and laptop are all ganging up on you; that the master/servant relationship has been revered and that you are now at their beck and call? Ok, perhaps that one is just for my and my personal digital terrors, but it’s clear there’s a lot of fretting over what technology has given us. Question 1 Answer (4) Quotes with explanation for 2+2 points. ‘Psst!’ Use of the question ‘Are you troubled…?’ ‘ganging’ ‘do you ever imagine’ ‘Ok’ ‘master/servant relationship’ ‘digital terrors’ ‘personal’ ‘Troubled by technology’ (alliteration) Chatty as if they are speaking to the reader as a friend through use of informal language (or punctuation) Conversational as they are directly addressing the reader and talking about their own fears. Humerous as use of informal language makes it appear amusing to the reader. Emotive as it uses language to create over-the-top scienarios to elicit emotion from the reader. Lighthearted as the alliteration creates a playful tone. Question 2 ‘it’s clear there’s a lot of fretting over what technology has given us.’ (line 4) By detailed reference to the text, show how the writer’s use of word choice develops this idea in the sentence beginning “the ‘Google effect’” (line 7). 4 ‘The ‘Google effect’ means that now we know where to retrieve information (but then can't remember it once we have found it) and our obsession with electronic and social media is, according to various reports, leading to a rise in narcissistic personality