"The Flight from Conversation": The Inconsistent Use of the Points of View

Read and annotate of the assignment articles:

Nicholas Carr

“Find how smartphones hijack our minds; Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.”

Wall Street Journal

New York 6 Oct 2017.

How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds - WSJ

https://www(dot)wsj(dot)com/articles/how-smartphones-hijack-our-minds...

Sherry Turkle

“The Flight from Conversation.” Opinion. Sunday Review

New York Times

22 April 2012

The Flight From Conversation - The New York Times

https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/.../sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

Next, do the following:

Create a Word document for this assignment.

Write the MLA citation for the source that you are using right below the heading.

Write the letter and then follow the directions for each one:

List the pronouns that the writer uses in the source. How often are the pronouns used? Write the number next to each one.

Does the point of view stay consistent throughout the source? If the point of view does not stay consistent but switches among the three kinds of pronouns, when and why does it switch? Answer in complete sentences.

Explain how the writer’s use of point of view? Might a different point of view improve the source? Why? Answer in complete sentences.

Type three sentences from the source that use first person, second person, or third person pronouns. Type the three sentences verbatim (exactly as the writer wrote them).

Rewrite these three sentences in a different point of view. In other words, if the writer uses first person pronouns, then rewrite the three sentences in second person point of view or third person point of view. By changing the pronouns in the sentences, you are changing the point of view of the sentences.

Write two critical questions that you have about this lesson

Next, do the following:

1. Create a Word document for this
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assignment.
2. Write the MLA citation for the source that you are using right below the heading.
3. Write the letter and then follow the directions for each one:
a. List the pronouns that the writer uses in the source. How often are the pronouns used? Write the number next to each one.
b. Does the point of view stay consistent throughout the source? If the point of view does not stay consistent but switches among the three kinds of pronouns, when and why does it switch? Answer in complete sentences.
c. Explain how the writer’s use of point of view? Might a different point of view improve the source? Why? Answer in complete sentences.

d. Type three sentences from the source that use first person, second person, or third person pronouns. Type the three sentences verbatim (exactly as the writer wrote them).

e. Rewrite these three sentences in a different point of view. In other words, if the writer uses first person pronouns, then rewrite the three sentences in second person point of view or third person point of view. By changing the pronouns in the sentences, you are changing the point of view of the sentences.
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