- Jul 2024
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substack.com substack.com
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Someone once said that at least one in five people are writing a novel. I barely know anyone who isn’t. It is still a prestigious form. And so, despite social media – the junk food of communication – literature continues to adapt to the contemporary mood. Where there is digital overload, people are returning to this more relaxed, nutritious analogue mode - reading words on a page.
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- Jun 2023
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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I always like to point to a text that changed my thinking about this question, and that’s Kathleen Yancey’s “Writing in the 21st Century.” It basically states that students are writing more than ever before. If you were to challenge a group of students (which I have) to document how many text messages, TikTok, IG posts, Facebook posts, tweets, emails they send out in a day, the sheer volume of writing is staggering. Why we don’t value that writing in academia is the question for me.
interesting point! some other things in my head:
1) in addition to our increased writing endeavors, we've also been engaging in extensive reading as well, but our reading material has evolved beyond books, encompassing the plethora of content available in the vast expanse of cyberspace
2) and while the quantity of reading has expanded significantly, it is equally intriguing to recognize that the nature of these texts has shifted towards shorter formats—tweets, ig post captions, microblogs, etc
3) AND lastly, the act of reading has swiftly evolved into the realm of listening, with the emergence of podcasts, audiobooks, listenable videos, and similar forms of content consumption
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- Apr 2023
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www.schoolofmotion.com www.schoolofmotion.com
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(6-10+ minutes) engaging videos that appear to do well on YouTube
This number(6-10minutes) is appealing to most viewers as it is concise and delivers a information in short bursts. It is ideal for quick tutorials, news and entertainment.
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- Feb 2017
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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Look to the Paragraphs and the Discourse will look to itself;
This has a nice ring to it, and it speaks nicely to the idea of form as inventive (even though the author might resist it).
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman
Think about the formal significance here: private letters as public texts. Recalls Foucault but also works within gendered genre conventions.
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- Jan 2017
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www.theparisreview.org www.theparisreview.org
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To me, that sense of complete commensurability between form and content at the level of the individual sentence is really what writing is all about.
Power's sentence-level interest: form and content
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