... topics ranging from health to entertainment and education, the future of the printed book is clearly threatened by the speed and efficiency of the Internet and its gargantuan powerhouse of knowledge and information. My experience of reading a hyperfiction is wholly different from one of reading a printed book. The presence of hypertextual links allows me to go where I want to go at my own ... connect articles and information allows readers to create our own meanings with the choice of our links. As readers, we produce our own meaning from the texts before us. Our reading is our interpre...

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... and made to practice, as these are crucial techniques in their development stage as a person. In recent years, kindergarten has evolved from these practices of fun into structuralized lessons in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Many years ago, playing and socializing were used as tools to further the developmental stage in a child's life. Recently, teachers have been incorporating mathematics and ... reading into lesson plans which typically were not taught until first or second grade. According to the Gesell Institute of Human Development, children should not be rushed into learning s...

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... to understand the orderly unfolding of a plot or logical argument is a crucial part of education" (274). In correlation with the abusive use of hypermedia and multimedia, computers ability to speed up the learning process can be more harmful than foreseen. In the authors prediction/analogy, "Do we really think" drilling addition and subtraction in an age of calculators ... is a waste of time"? If we do, the drilling reading in an age of multimedia is a waste of time" cant be far behind" (275). In Gelernter's assessments of the topic he generally focus' on the future of the ... to read ...

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... the school for the past 13 years. 19xx-19xx Position, Name of Company United States Corporation Company, Executive Secretary to one of the Vice Presidents My duties included taking dictation (speed writing), typing letters, billing companies for stock certificates and mailings, filing, and researching information for customers and other stockbrokers. Worked here for 7 years. Company closed continued working at home for ... closed completely. EDUCATION 19xx-19xx St. Michael's High School Graduated 1970 19xx-19xx Brooklyn College 21/2 years credits towards Education INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES...

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... the school for the past 13 years. 19xx-19xx Position, Name of Company United States Corporation Company, Executive Secretary to one of the Vice Presidents My duties included taking dictation (speed writing), typing letters, billing companies for stock certificates and mailings, filing, and researching information for customers and other stockbrokers. Worked here for 7 years. Company closed continued working at home for ... closed completely. EDUCATION 19xx-19xx St. Michael's High School Graduated 1970 19xx-19xx Brooklyn College 21/2 years credits towards Education INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES...

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... educational purposes such as research and note-taking was very beneficial but at the same time, I spent the last two years of high school staring at a computer screen, taking notes, reading, everything become electronic. In the end, it did help me get better in taking faster notes through college; however, I noticed that as I look at a computer screen for long periods of ... my attention span getting shorter and shorter. In conclusion, computer technology has both advantages and drawbacks but in the end, all that matters is how you look at it. Computers speed up the process of learning,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate