CARS Introduction

Establishing a Territory

• Importance

1. General importance: protecting our mind from losing literary comprehension.
2. Audience that should be most concerned: students, professors, librarians, universities.
3. Reasons: students – comprehension becomes limited; professors – knowledge of students regressing; librarians – closely affiliated with the research process; universities – nurturing students academically.
   

• Previous Research

1. Discussion surrounding Google and the ways it has afflicted our literary comprehension.
2. Studies already completed concerning the affects of the Net on our brains.
   

Establishing a Niche

• Gap in the research

1. Students retaining information as a computer would; wanting everything to be as easy and fast as a hyperlink, and understanding information to be presented in the smallest format possible.

Occupying a Niche

• Outline the purpose

1. Research pursued: Carr, Cookson, De Ridder, Cohen, etc.

• The findings

1. The reader will understand the different ways the Net has affected the way we think.
2. The reader will understand the manner in which students are retaining information as a computer would.
   

• Structure of essay

1. Five parts: Introduction, research, the gap in research, significance, conclusion