I’m typing this post in a Word document (opened to fill half the screen), while in the background my Firefox browser has not one, not two, but fifteen tabs calling to be opened, tugging at my attention like a two year old hanging on my leg: Gmail Goodreads A Sear Portrait coupon I’d clicked on …
“I am planning to get so much writing done today. But first…” Be sure to go to Writer Unboxed for a wonderful new comic by Debbie Ohi (Inkygirl): A Cautionary Comic for Writers. Think of it as The Shallows: Part IV Other posts in The Shallows book review series: The Shallows, Part I: My Return …
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 …
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 …
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 …