"And above all -- and again I have a bias here because I write them -- but read books. If you really want to know, read books. You've got to have some kind of historical perspective. So much of what is problematic about our news media coverage comes from its insistent focus on 'now, now, now.' If something happened two days ago the media do not care about it. That's a real failing."
-- Mark Hertsgaard, the journalist who wrote On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency and whose articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and other journals and periodicals.Turn off the computer. Class time the week of March 12-14 is offered to you for reading.
You must read Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. with introduction by E.B. White in the hard copy version.
You also may refresh yourself by reading 1.) any author whose writing may or may not be related to your current academic work or 2.) an author who expands your knowledge about current academic work.Assignment: Take some time to yourself, sit down, kick off your shoes, read a book.
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