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

By Emily Doherty

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Guest Blogger: ~ A milestone forgotten

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.

I read on the train to work, I read notes off my iPhone on my walks to class, I read in class, I read in my dorm room, I read in the library, I read in solitude... kind of.  Taking time to soak up each word is difficult to do but the milestone in literature/cultural phenomenon is not one that is frequently discussed.  I question my own abilities to be able to confide in my book in complete solitude. How (or can) you read in solitude?

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Is it worth it? Let me NetWORKit

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

~ As this blogger posts (Aug. 31, 2014) GET OFF YOUR LAPTOPS AND ACTUALLY WRITE A SENTENCE! (as they are blogging...strange.) 

http://leftwrites.tumblr.com/

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Initial newculturesofwriting Post ~

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.

After watching Michael Wesch's video on The Machine is Us/ing Us (clever title..), I found a few things that were troubling to me.  One of those elements is the fact that ANY user of the internet does not need to have the same complex knowledge that they would have had to have when HTML was the source for formatting a website.  (Which from personal experience, is rather difficult..)  This confirms that those without the knowledge can create these pages that "draw" readers in, despite what they post being formed from intelligent thought.  This is not the case for all websites, but it does raise alarm.  Also, anyone can steal work off the internet as shown in the video, which raises another red flag for writers such as myself.