Reading: Slow, Hyper, and Machine

Some Tips on Reading


Close Reading

Read Barack Obama's handwritten reflection on The Gettysburg Address closely and carefully.


Hyper Reading

1. Start.
2. Skim.
3. Sideread.
4. Surmise.

Read Jaron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget in 5 minutes.  Then, report back, and tell me what it's about.


Machine Reading

Let's take H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and read it using Spritz via Readsy and Wordle.

Read quickly through a Twitter tag.
     How is reading and writing different on Twitter or text messaging?
     Are there rules?
     How does your mom text message?
     * (Translate a famous person's Tweet into Standard Edited English, and post it to your blog.)

Notes:

See Hayles's article on these different modes of reading, as well as Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.