The assignment given to my group was to figure out what effected out interpretation of the essay "Is Google Making us Stupid?" We had to come up with all the different factors that might make us understand the essay less or more.

Some of the factors that we chose were in the essay itself. For instance, the fact that the writing was so small and close together made the essay appear intimidating. Therefore make those who read it want to just skim it, instead of making sure that they understand it. Then there was one picture that was kind of distracting. Then some of the other factors had to do with the way the essay was presented to us. For example, when it was given to the class we did not even have a clue what it was going to be about. Then we were only given ten minutes to read it, thus making us just want to skim through it. However, on the positive side the classroom environment being quiet made it much easier to pay attention to the essay, because ther were no distractions.

Overall I did not finish reading the essay in class. These examples were some of the obstacles I had to pass to read it or some of the things that made it easier for me to concentrate. These are things to look for to either prevent or help when the students are reading essays.