Why Do We Need Our Remissness To Read?

Dana Gioia, the author of this article, claims that the decline of reading in America will cause negative effects in society. Dana Gioia develops this persuasive argument by discussing the possible social and personal problems that could arise with the decline of literacy. The author believes that the lack of literacy in America can begin to deteriorate our way of life.

In today’s society reading is essential to function. Everywhere people turn they are required to read directions, labels, books, what’s going on in the news, or mandatory rules they need to follow. Just think about if a majority of the world couldn’t read how chaotic society would be.

In the passage “Why Literature Matters” by Dana Gioia, Gioia states that the decline of interest in reading in America is decreasing. She then claims that this lack of interest will hold negative effects on the future of our society. Gioia uses facts and evidence to support her claim.

Growing up in working class family, my mom worked all the time for the living of a big family with five kids, and my dad was in re-education camp because of his association with U.S. government before 1975. My grandma was my primary guardian. “Go to study, go to read your books, read anything you like to read if you want to have a better life,” my grandma kept bouncing that phrase in my childhood. It becomes the sole rule for me to have better future. I become curious and wonder what the inside of reading and write can make my life difference. In my old days, there was no computer, no laptop, no phone…etc, to play or to spend time with, other than books. I had no other choice than read, and read and tended to dig

Dana Gioia calls out millennials and younger generations in america, to spark a conversation about the increasingly declining and destructive behavior of NOT reading! Gioia makes very many fantastic points and uses very many persuasive elements on why literacy actually is vital to to our society and the negative effects that come from this lack of literacy. She gives us factual evidence and credible sources to pull the reader into her side of the argument.

According to the United Nations Agency, approximately 3.2 billion people have used the Internet since 2015, which has made a drastic increase since 2000 with there only being 738 million internet users then. That is almost 43% of the world's population that uses the internet. A controversial topic that is commonly being brought up in today's arguments is the use of the internet and how people believe it is becoming such a detriment to our society, because nobody in this generation acknowledges the value of books, or even prefers to use an actual copy such as a paperback. The internet, such as Google, is being classified as lazy or ignorant, but reading a book is labeled as literate or being knowledgeable. Thesis:“Teaching in the #Age Literacy” by Jennifer L. Nelson and “Is Google Making Us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, both analyze the pros and cons to having the internet and information at our fingertips, how it is affecting the way we read and analyze text and different scientific experiments that have been put to use to decode why we think the way we do now and how to improve our intelligence.

When students are assigned assignments for school, they most likely go to the Internet to find the answers. They refuse to figure the question out on their own because as Carr stated, we are becoming shallower thinkers. We do not think we can do it on our own so, we have become dependent on the Internet to give us the quick and easy answer. We do not even bother picking up textbooks anymore to read because most of us have suppressed the idea of research to find an answer, which is why we have a hard time retaining the information. My school, for example, distributed us Chromebooks to help with in-class activities, but in reality they are a distraction. Most students sit in class on their Chromebook browsing for shoes or clothes and catching up on social media. However, those students tend to perform poorly on exams in comparison to the experiment conducted at Cornell University that Carr

Reading texts, emails, tweets, articles, and web browsing in general have us reading more today than at any time in our history. The question is if reading all of these short snippets of information is nearly as valuable to us as reading whole texts was to us in the past.

Dana Gioia creates a theme of anxiousness as she doubts on our society. When polling members on skill deficiencies, poor reading skills was ranked as second, showing that many young adults also ar4e not and advances as they should be. She is truthful in her word hen she says that as b” more americans lose this capability, our nation becomes more informed, active and independent minded.” Gioia proves to us that unless we get back on track and start regenerating the thought of reading literature so that more people will begin to do so and think of in a way of which we think of our cell phones then we can begin to have a more strong , developed and smart nation that knows literature is a crucial part of our

Further, a society that does not read will begin to rely on the superficial, perhaps the TV, and fail to discover what is behind that. That is, decisions will be made on what advertisements or people advise to think rather than reading and thinking on our own. But we want to take a different path. As Dr. Seuss once said, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll

How many times per day do you use the search engine “Google.” According to, statistics.org Google had about 7,766,000,000 searches daily in 2015. What made people use Google instead of opening a book? The real question is, how does google impact our self-education? The answer is quite simple. Google decreases our ability and motivation to self-educate. Although it can be argued that google makes learning easier and faster, what are we really learning from Google? The article “Is Google Making us stupid” by Nicholas Carr explains how we no longer think about what we learn. Carr believes we rely more on quick facts opposed to critical thinking or research.

As printed text becomes more difficult to read, reading as a hobby has gotten a lot less attractive to some people. UCLA psychology professor Patricia Greenfield points out in her studies, “reading develops imagination, induction,

How many times a day do you use Google to search a simple question? According to Internet Live Stats, there are over 3.5 billion searches on Google everyday. People use technology to answer easy questions and perform simple tasks every minute, when they could be finding out the answer from a book or even another person. I see my fellow classmates searching the answer to questions that they can’t find in their textbook everyday. Even I have been guilty of searching a question that I was unsure of on the internet; we have all had instances that we did this. However, this creates a mindset that we only need to learn the things that are useful in school. This deters students from really trying in the classroom setting and even later on in life.

(Attention Getter) Reading is a hobby that many of us can or already do enjoy, but what if I told you that the benefits of reading can stretch far beyond a little ease-of-mind? (Thesis): Some claim that readers will be able to enjoy a notably longer life than those who do not read. (Relevance): Out of the lazing pastimes that we occupy our little free-time with, very few of them have such a considerable, long-term effects as these claims

Reading is one of the most beneficial activities a man can do. Out of reading, man can be able to discover new things, concepts, places and people. More so, reading is a way to relax our mind and soul, going deeply through the world of story and improves our thinking and internalization process.