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The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review
january 2012 by mwfogleman
Over the past decade, academic researchers such as Oatley and Raymond Mar from York University have gathered data indicating that fiction-reading activates neuronal pathways in the brain that measurably help the reader better understand real human emotion — improving his or her overall social skillfulness. For instance, in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.
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january 2012 by mwfogleman
Heavy sentences by Joseph Epstein - The New Criterion
august 2011 by mwfogleman
Learning to write sound, interesting, sometimes elegant prose is the work of a lifetime. The only way I know to do it is to read a vast deal of the best writing available, prose and poetry, with keen attention, and find a way to make use of this reading in one’s own writing. The first step is to become a slow reader. No good writer is a fast reader, at least not of work with the standing of literature. Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it interest me? (3) Is it well constructed? Writers also ask these questions, but two others along with them: (4) How did the author achieve the effects he has? And (5) What can I steal, properly camouflaged of course, from the best of what I am reading for my own writing? This can slow things down a good bit.
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august 2011 by mwfogleman
The Back to Books Challenge : books
june 2011 by mwfogleman
Do not return to the Internet until...
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internet
june 2011 by mwfogleman
The Millions : The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels
may 2011 by mwfogleman
Reading a novel of punishing difficulty and length is a version of climbing Everest for people who prefer not to leave the house. And people who climb Everest don’t howl with exhilaration at the summit because the mountain was a good or a well made or an interesting mountain per se, but because they’re overawed at themselves for having done such a fantastically difficult thing.
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psychology
reading
may 2011 by mwfogleman
stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book
april 2010 by mwfogleman
The reason the web works as wonderfully as it does is because the medium leads us, sometimes against our will, into common places, not glass boxes. It’s our job—as journalists, as educators, as publishers, as software developers, and maybe most importantly, as readers—to keep those connections alive.
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april 2010 by mwfogleman
On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
may 2009 by mwfogleman
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may 2009 by mwfogleman
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
politics education technology books culture interesting activism privacy law article orwell digital censorship 1984 ebook amazon kindle reading copyright future drm analysis ebooks blog writing freedom publishing rights book business
april 2009 by mwfogleman
the art of the commencement speech, an archive
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
reference speaking commencement education argument graduation magazine philosophy addresses todo learning wisdom archive article writing stevejobs inspiration speeches archives life college reading awesome english list speech quotes rhetoric
april 2009 by mwfogleman
PhilPapers: Philosophy Online
april 2009 by mwfogleman
PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free.
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
zinelibrary.info | revolution in the streets!
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Welcome to ZineLibrary.info. Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site ( zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute.
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
American Atheists | Welcome
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march 2009 by mwfogleman
politics philosophy god political secularism atheist freethinking atheists organizations skepticism skeptic reason american news usa blog reading activism freethought organization mythology society faith religion humanism atheism church blogs secular christianity
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Books That Have Shaped How I Think | O'Reilly Media
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march 2009 by mwfogleman
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march 2009 by mwfogleman
Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class
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february 2009 by mwfogleman
video mashup wesch digital_ethnography edtech michael_wesch zoho ethnography engagement pedagogy education socialmedia web2.0 blog cloudcomputing research reading teaching online blogs collaboration database data literacy
february 2009 by mwfogleman
John T. Reed's analysis of Robert T. Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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december 2008 by mwfogleman
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december 2008 by mwfogleman
Open Loops: Twelve Ways To Mark Up A Book
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Use codes – Flag text with codes (e.g., Question marks to indicate disagreement, Exclamation marks to note agreement or to flag a strong statement, triangles to indicate a change in thinking, or a star for the topic sentence).
Write the passage topic in the margin as a reminder – Just a word or two.
Write questions in the margin – When you don’t understand something or when you don’t understand the author’s thought process on a particular topic, write the question in the margin as a reminder to settle the question.
Summarize – Add your own summary after the last paragraph. That simple exercise will crystalize your thinking on the topic. If you can’t write it, you don’t understand it.
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Write the passage topic in the margin as a reminder – Just a word or two.
Write questions in the margin – When you don’t understand something or when you don’t understand the author’s thought process on a particular topic, write the question in the margin as a reminder to settle the question.
Summarize – Add your own summary after the last paragraph. That simple exercise will crystalize your thinking on the topic. If you can’t write it, you don’t understand it.
december 2008 by mwfogleman
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