Soup-Lion, (I think we've bonded a bit now so I feel like I can say this. You've moved from Soup-Dogg to Soup-Lion). No reason to lash out at Cunt_Eastwood, he's simply referring back to your first post where you said, "from now until 2013 I plan on trying to unplug myself."
Anyways, you're getting off topic.
I'm still interested in seeing your claim supported by your Carr passage (post #62) in a clear way. You're not helping so I've decided to try and help you help me. In post #72 you posted a hint to your thought process. I'm going to try and put it in a clear, easy to read form and see where it actually supports your claim.
In post #62 you said this..
"Claim: What I want readers to believe'
Support: What I will use to support the claim
Warrant: A general principle that explains why I think me evidence is accurate, and
relevant to your claim."
Here's your claim: Books allow for deeper concentration, contemplation, and memorization
than any other format
Your warrant: The claim is evident through scientific research
Your support from post #72: "using the Net may, as Gary Small suggests, exercise the brain the
way solving crossword puzzles does. But such intensive exercise, when it becomes our
primary mode of thought, can impede deep learning and thinking. Try reading a book
while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet"
I'm going to experiment and change the order up in hopes of seeing what you see.
Warrant: The claim is evident through scientific research
Support #1: "using the Net may, as Gary Small suggests, exercise the brain the
way solving crossword puzzles does. But such intensive exercise, when it becomes our
primary mode of thought, can impede deep learning and thinking. Try reading a book
while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet"
Claim: Books allow for deeper concentration, contemplation, and memorization
than any other format
Putting it in this way helps me see that your claim is very different than what you said was support, and seemingly doesn't follow in any way. Carr doesn't even mention concentration, contemplation, or memorization.
Another important note is Gary Smalls actual findings in the passage you privided,
"...researchers found that when people search the Net they exhibit a
very different pattern of brain activity than they do when they read book-like text. Book
readers have a lot of activity in regions associated with language, memory, and visual
processing, but they don’t display much activity in the prefrontal regions associated with
decision making and problem solving. Experienced Net users, by contrast, display
extensive activity across all those brain regions when they scan and search Web pages.
The good news here is that Web surfing, because it engages so many brain functions,
may help keep older people’s minds sharp. Searching and browsing seem to “exercise”
the brain in a way similar to solving crossword puzzles, says Small."
Please pay attention to the distinction Smalls makes here between searching the Net and reading book-like text,
"when people search the Net they exhibit a
very different pattern of brain activity than they do when they read book-like text."
In your support, Carr only mentions Small's research results of when people are searching the Net. Carr does not say reading actual books is better in any way than reading book-like text. I think that is something you may be reading into the text and not getting form the text, but maybe I'm wrong.
Again, that twelve paragraph passage is a critique of Net surfing and not of reading book-like text.
Seems to me there are some large gaps between your support and your claim.