From instructor:

“You will be required to read two essays and explore a common theme that both pieces share in a 3-4 page paper. Your goal will be two-fold with this assignment: you are to compare the various ideas and statements that both works have in common, and then use that comparison to analyze both texts.

The influence of internet and communication technology in Is Google Making Us Stupid? and How Computers Change the Way We Think

Your final paper should offer a complete and detailed literary analysis focusing on how your chosen texts treat their connecting theme.  The second part of your task is to compare the different effects that theme has in each work.  In other words, you should not simply identify the similarities between your texts, but also explore the significance of these similarities.

Your final draft should:

    Begin with an interesting and informative title
    Use evidence from the texts of the two works to analyze their connecting theme
    Be carefully and clearly written
    Use diction and style appropriate to a formal essay
    Be written entirely in the third person
    Be free of grammatical and mechanical errors
    Be double spaced, 3-4 pages long, written in MLA format, and printed in Times New Roman,
        12-pt. Font”