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Since the past sixteen years or so, a growing concern about reading has emerged. The argument concerns a pitting of books against computers, of reading against digitalizing, of text against texting. Many teachers have experienced a problem in the reading classroom, when students assigned literary texts often lack the skills or patience to sit still with a book and absorb, then analyze what is on the printed page.
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Doll, M.A. (2011). Reading the Textured World. In: Doll, M.A. (eds) The More of Myth. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 68. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-445-4_6
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