http://web.ebscohost.com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/ehost/detail?sid=27a9243e-c2d8-4d5c-bff3-ba677de4bc45%40sessionmgr11&vid=8&hid=24&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=26129263
In this particular source, the author begins to delve into what our reading and writing processes are like on the Internet. This journal is devoted to looking at poetry, so I will most likely be unable to pull a lot of specifics from it. What it will allow me to do is to begin to form an understanding of what we identify our reading and writing habits as on the Internet and how that is different from reading and writing with pen and paper. Just for example, the author states: “Writing native to the electronic environment is under continual construction (poiesis) by its creators and receivers.” This is a type of general statement that I can utilize to form the basis of my argument, or find an angle form which to approach my argument.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/355032.pdf?acceptTC=true
This source is very different from my first, in that it looks at the development of rhetoric and language pre-Internet. (It was written in 1969, so it doesn’t have much of a choice). This source will help me immensely in advancing one of the main portions of my argument- that the way we write was changing before the Internet came along, but in a different way. I feel this way because in what I did read, it said it would “Compare these new rhetorical strategies with those that prevailed in the Renaissance when the study of rhetoric and logic reigned supreme in the schools, and to try to account for the changes that have taken place.” I haven’t read fully through this source, but I’m planning on it tomorrow, and I think I’m in store for something interesting.
Sorry for the late post. I got home at 10pm, in my defense.