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'All I Want For Christmas Is A New Face And Less Responsibilities' 

Reading inequalities: i.e. The difference between reading in solitude and reading while speaking the words out loud. 

This cultural development began as an intelligent, new way that people were learning how to read.  This never came to my mind when thinking of the ways people advanced throughout the eras in regard to literature. 

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” -Thomas Mann.  

Chartier states on pg. 8, "Silent reading also made possible the internalization of what the reader read...silent reading was faster, easier, and more immediate on the impact of the inner self."  Is there a way to be fast, easy, and more immediate while ALSO realizing your true potential and inner self? Why is it that many* people claim to be quick readers yet say that they feel truly connected with the text itself.  How is that so?

I don't know about you, my fellow #eng400 bloggers, but I was subjected to the dreaded SSR, or sustained silent reading in elementary and middle school.  Basically, books were piled up for the students to devour and get through as quick as possible in a short amount of time.  The prizes for the most reading were always good (snap-on bracelets and wonderballs anyone?!) but the personal and intellectual growth? Not so much.  

How is it possible to prevent reading books from feeling like a quick secluded task? Repeat reading. Slow, repeat reading.

Mantra= Read, Class, Sleep, Repeat.

After discussion in class on how our words are being changed due to the technological forces that our society encounters, I have found a few blogs relating to how and why it is changing us. 

We all know there is etiquette for advanced writing, right? Well, there is such a thing as blogging etiquette.. See here: http://bit.ly/1psXkE4

This here is a lesson plan taught to students grades 7-12. A lesson plan on blogging? say whaaaat. Mind = blown. 

~ A second sign that our minds are being changed to think in terms of writing.  It is even claimed to have therapeutic effects! Blogging! Like a massage or maybe even better.  http://bit.ly/YerNjX

Hello fellow bloggers!

My name is Emily Doherty.  I am a junior Public Relations Major as well as a Creative Writing Minor.  I really am hoping to gain valuable knowledge about the way technology truly shapes the way many writers currently write. I am interested to see the many different styles and original thinking that comes with the new cultures of writing and how those relate to our daily social media interaction.