This post is an essay by Julia Fisher from the Atlantic. Here's a link to the original. It's about reading and writing. Here point is in the title. Here's how she puts it in her intro: In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and … Continue reading Julia Fisher — My Students Write Their Papers Backwards
This essay is from the online science magazine, Nautilus. Here's a link to the original. Reading is a very recent development in world history (no more than 5,000 year old) and its distinctive to humans. The original impulse to write things down seemed to come from accounting, maintaining a record of transactions, and them moved … Continue reading Lydia Wilson — Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
