Quote: "The vast majority of online Americans hold a high opinion of the Internet as a place to conduct the everyday tasks and pursue the everyday pleasures of life, such as checking the weather, doing their banking, communicating with friends and family, and playing games. Over the course of the four years in which the Pew Internet Project has been tracking online activities, a growing number of users have acted on their positive opinions of the Internet and gone online to do these things.
92% of Internet users say the Internet is a good place to go for getting everyday information.
85% say the Internet is a good way to communicate or interact with others.
75% say the Internet is a good place to conduct everyday transactions.
69% say the Internet is a good way to entertain themselves in everyday life."
Fallows, Debrah. "The internet and daily life." www.ischool.utexas.edu. Pew/internet and american life project, 04 008 2004. Web. 14 Mar 2011. <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385e/readings/PIP_Internet_and_Daily_Life.pdf>.
Paraphrase: This article provides the exact information that my topic is about. As you can see in this quote that I added above, many people use the internet for daily routines that other people had to do more labor to find out before we had the internet. People use it to check the weather, play games, online banking, and finding news.
Summary: The article that I chose supports my topic 100%. It provides many statistics that prove how people are using the internet more and for daily things. One of the best pieces of information that it has is the statistics that are at the beginning of this post. It says that "92% of users say the internet is a good place to go for getting everyday information." This really supports my topic. The type of propaganda that the author uses to get readers to believe his information is the usage of statistics. Without these statistics I don't think that this article would be as convincing as it is.
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