Reading Matters
<fall 2000> <issue 4>

     

Why Reading Matters: An Introduction

   David Kaufmann for the editorial collective


exhibits

   

Desktop Intonarumori: A Hypertext Collage an excerpt from the multimedia cd-rom Words In Freedom 
  
Mel Nichols (This piece requires Shockwave and sound capabilities.)

Media Bytes: First Loves



   Recordings of E. Ethelbert Miller and Eric Pankey as they read the poems that inspired them.
Walney Road: Digital Storytelling   Margaret Yocom, Zofia Burr, and Mel Nichols


Student Hypertext Essays: An Introduction

    THE COLOR OF TV
            by Garth Dubin
    JOY LUCK CLUB
            by Betty Dailly
    THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
            by Hue Ky

 

Essays created in Dean Taciuch's Enhanced Digital Text in English class at George Mason University.




essays 
    
Why Reading Matters: Readers respond to the question, why does reading matter today?


Personal Reflections



   Richard Bausch, Alan Cheuse, Barbara Melosh, Eileen Sypher, and Tracy Springberry
George Mason University Students Respond

   English Students from English 202 and 325
A High School Teacher Considers Canon and Curriculum: or, Wherefore Art Thou Still Teaching Romeo and Juliet?

  Mary Gallager
Reading Books: 12th Graders Talk About How and Why They Read: A Powerpoint Presentation

   Danielle Heyman Feist & Seniors



Read To Me: Pages From a Scrapbook

  Patricia Lukens

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   Speech Accent Archive: An archive of recorded English Accents
Events



   Calendar of readings, performances, and exhibits in the Washington, DC area
Contributors   List of contributors to Issue 4