Research Guides: Faculty Support: Reading, Writing, and Learning: Print vs Digital

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Do we write differently on a screen, by Tim Parks. New Yorker, Feb. 19,2019.
"Interruption is constant but also desired. .... You realize that the people reading what you have written will also be interrupted. They are also sitting at screens, with smartphones in their pockets. They won’t be able to deal with long sentences, extended metaphors. They won’t be drawn into the enchantment of the text. So should you change the way you write accordingly? Have you already changed, unwittingly?"

Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf
Call Number: BF456.R2 W65 2018
ISBN: 0062388789
Wood considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.