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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

The Next Big Idea

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What Happened to Deep Reading?

Alokal Vinos: We can't help but use skimming. And that's a piece of what happened to deep reading right there. The publishers, they realize, well, we can't read that much deeply so that things get shorter,. I don't mean just novels. Even our scientific articles are becoming shorter and less devoted to the historical argumentation. It threatens a culture of dialogue that is critical for us to be able to think clearly.

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