Differences

The essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” displays some aspects of the work and detail that goes into a well written essay which was described in “Letterpress Language: Typography as a Medium for The Visual Representation of Language”. Johanna Drucker the author of “Letterpress Language: Typography as a Medium for The Visual Representation of Language” speaks about the assumptions that are made in language, also the different types of languages that are in the world. In Carr’s essay he writes with distinct terms referring to many different technical features.

Johanna also mentions the emphasis on letters she references a essay in which “Each page was headed by a letter of the alphabet located in a word which spoke the letter’s name.” In Carr’s easy he used larger sized font and bold lettering to distinguish his thoughts throughout the essay. He also used his title and first paragraph to his advantage by utilizing his fonts and also by using a quote from Space Odyssey.

Many of the examples and explanations through the essay “Letterpress Language: Typography as a Medium for The Visual Representation of Language” were about differentiation between important, less important, well known, unknown, thoughtful, thoughtless, and many other words and terms incorporated in an article. In Carr’s essay he would use smaller fonts, upper case letters, pictures, quotes, and colors to help differentiate his meaning behind the words he chose.