ENGL 120 Cuyamaca College Reading Activities For Final Exam Paper

DIRECTIONS

Answer the questions below for the two articles

“Hooked on Our Smartphones”

and

“Stop Googling, Let’s Talk.”

This reading activity will help prepare you for the final exam because you’ll be writing about these articles on the final.

To help you complete this activity, first review the list of

rhetorical strategies

before you start reading the articles.

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QUESTIONS

“Hooked on Our Smartphones” by Jane Brody

1. What is Jane Brody’s thesis/argument?

2. Who is she trying to persuade?

“Stop Googling, Let’s Talk” by Sherry Turkle

3. What is Sherry Turkle’s thesis/argument?

4. Who is she trying to persuade?

Questions for Both Articles

5. Identify a rhetorical strategy used in both articles.

6. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Hooked on Our Smartphones”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

7. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

8. Which article uses the strategy more effectively to convince the audience of the author’s thesis/argument? Why?

9. Identify a second rhetorical strategy used in both articles.

10. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Hooked on Our Smartphones”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

11. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

12. Which article uses the strategy more effectively to convince the audience of the author’s thesis/argument? Why?

13. Identify a third rhetorical strategy used in both articles.

14. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Hooked on Our Smartphones”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

15. What is an example of this rhetorical strategy used in “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk”? (Include the paragraph number where you found the quotation.)

16. Which article uses the strategy more effectively to convince the audience of the author’s thesis/argument? Why?

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