The persuasive text has several different features that distinguish it from the other types of text. These features are connected to the content and organization of the text. I think that the text presented is not persuasive since there are not enough arguments and evidence. Moreover, the text lacks a persuasive essay structure and does not maintain a strong logical flow of the ideas presented.
The main goal of the persuasive text is to persuade the audience in a particular statement or belief. For example, the given text should have to argue that Google makes people stupid. However, there were not enough arguments to support this claim. There were several ideas and suggestions that Google and overall the internet do not contribute to intellectual development and that it distracts the person searching for information on the internet. However, even if these statements are true, they do not necessarily mean that Google makes people stupid. The fact that Google only gives an opportunity to search for information faster is undeniable, but the text does not show the correlation between this factor and the decrease in one’s intelligence level. In addition, the arguments provided lack strong evidence. Evidence is required to back up the provided arguments, and in order for them to be strong, they should be highly credible. That means that the text should reference popular and/or credible resources, such as scholarly articles, journals, newspapers, and scientific research.
Next, the text’s organization lacks logical flow and makes the text difficult to follow. The persuasive texts should have a well-organized structure that usually contains an introduction, a hook part, a thesis statement, separate paragraphs for each of the provided arguments that together form a body, and a conclusion. The given text, however, does not follow this pattern which makes it less convincing and not persuasive.