Monday, March 21, 2011

Is there text in class? in school? in life?

Yes!
Text is everywhere. From the first day of class syllabus to the final exam, we are receiving text. I read about 50 pages a night for my classes, and I know i'm not the only one. We are constantly asked to read something, analyze something, interpret something from text. They are called textbooks for a reason; they are filled with text. Sometimes tiny, frustrating text. Not only do we absorb text in the classroom and at school, it is known that we are hit with thousands of advertisements everyday. A billboard, a brochure, a commercial, it's all text. I have still not even mentioned the obvious text we recieve in everyday life. Reading the news, whether in hand or online, we are still receiving text. Checking our Facebooks, Twitter, and emails, it's all text.

We are surrounded by text. It's everywhere we look, whether we actively notice it or not.

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