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Article #2667Re: Effects of poor writing? (Long)
From: Brian Miller
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 16:25
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 16:25
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In article <2031@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes: > Isn't literacy wonderful? How neat to be able to pluck an event from a >single book, and have a reasonable chance of evoking the same memory in a >large group of literate, culturally similar people... On that note, does anyone remember a book about media and society by (Neil?) Postman? I suspect I "have a reasonable chance..." :-). I <skimmed> it for a paper freshman year, and all I can remember is that it was chalk full of pertinent observations on everything we've been chewing on. If anyone _has_ read this book and can recall some of Postman's examples/arguments/observations, please post. Would be cool... Thanx.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!puff!cat50!brian From: brian@cat50.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing? (Long) Message-ID: <2704@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 5 May 89 16:25:38 GMT References: <4352@ttidca.TTI.COM> <3893@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <2018@trantor.harris-atd.com> <2679@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <2031@trantor.harris-atd.com> Sender: news@puff.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: brian@cat50.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 13