Making Hay While the Sun Shines

The Shallows, Part III: Making Hay While the Sun Shines I’m still a farm girl at heart. The county where I grew up has a population density of six people per square mile, and I was one of three student in my class through eighth grade. Most of my summers were spent either reading or …

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Research in the Digital Age

The Shallows, Part II: Research in the Digital Age Perhaps the biggest change I’ve noticed in writing—both in my own work and in my teaching of writing—has been in the area of research. When I taught my first technical composition class in 1989, students still used big green volumes of The Reader’s Guide to Periodical …

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My Return to Deep Reading

Note: Click here for an updated version of this post. The Shallows, Part I: Deep Reading Yesterday I took advantage of having a cold and staying home (our car didn’t leave the driveway all day!) to finish reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. The book was released …

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