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Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
    • Mary Worrell
       
      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
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    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Dana Huff

Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts: Home - 6 views

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    Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen's working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry. Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. Digitization at this stage in their lives not only offers the opportunity for the virtual reunification of a key manuscript resource, it will also be accompanied by a record in as complete a form as possible of the conservation history and current material state of these manuscripts to assist their future conservation.
Donalyn Miller

Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: Top 10 Myths About Our E-book Future - 5 views

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    Top Ten Myths About Our E-
Leslie Healey

I am the sum of the total parts I control « - 3 views

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    virtual worlds: not the future, but the present of education. I am not prepared
Karen Chichester

PaperRater - 11 views

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    Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker and More. Checks Plagiarism too. Free. Maintained by Linguists and grad students. Plan to off more serves for a fee in future. Also has a link to Vocabulary Builder.
Dana Huff

Trouble with Shakespeare? Try it on The iPad. « Shakespeare In Bits - Blog - 12 views

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    If this is the future of studying a Shakespeare play, sign me up.
Julia Robert

Academic Writing Course - 13 views

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    Academic Writing Course,In the future you must give your students more specific study preparatory skills, not least the ability to acquire material in English in various disciplines: This book deals with all aspects of academic writing, through advice and exercises based on a wide range of material.
Dana Huff

English Tenses Timeline - 24 views

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    Handy guide to English verb tenses that shows a progression in time from the past to the future.
Adam Babcock

Create timelines, share them on the web | Timetoast timelines - 16 views

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    Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future...Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be
Boyd Logan

The Future of Reading - 'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Seri... - 0 views

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    NYT Article on Lit Lab/Reading Workshop approach.
James Miscavish

Writing exercises are a great way to both increase your skill as a writer and to genera... - 0 views

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    # Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write down the dialogue and add narrative descriptions of the speakers and actions as if you were writing a scene. # Write a 500-word biography of your life. # Write your obituary. List all of your life's acco
Kim Laird

YouTube - TEDxDenverEd- Brian Crosby- Back to the Future - 6 views

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    Wow! PBL at its best.
Leslie Healey

Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated | Cory Doctorow | Technology ... - 6 views

  • t was coined in 1913 by Wolfgang Riepl. It's as true now as it was then.
  • Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling says: "The future composts the past." There's even a law to describe this, Riepl's Law – which says "new, further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and their usage patterns. Instead, a convergence takes place in their field, leading to a different way and field of use for these older forms."
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    doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging
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    this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
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