[Air-l] email is 'out'

[Ellie Wix]

Motivation for a task as well.  I take great job in writing papers about
topics in sociology, as well as writing in my techblog.  I get less job
writing about things I have no personal investment in.  I am fine going to
the library and shutting everything off if I am participating in something I
have a personal and emotional investment in.  On other topics I welcome
chatting and email as a backdrop to make up for my lack of interest in it.

I also have to print out things to edit them...I think just because I'm so
used to reading things on paper.  I can't read a pdf of a journal article on
a computer screen, I have to print it out and highlight it.  I guess I'm
just a very tactile person.

-Ellie

On 10/14/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >> Just my opinion as a techno-addict.
> >
> > I wonder about that, myself.  Given my recent musings on this whole
> > concept,
> > I wonder if I'm a recovering techno-addict or an up-and-coming
> > Luddite.
> > Will have to do the differential analysis sometime to find out.  :)
>
> On my way back from Turin last year, I had an interesting albeit
> short conversation with a catholic scholar about the mental processes
> of composition and our phenomenological experiences of writing using
> various technics.   He pointed out to me that he is much more
> creative and interesting in his prose when he writes with pen and
> paper.   The claim was that his   writing hand was much more
> connected to his creative brain than using both hands in composition
> on a computer keyboard.  My experience is somewhat different, given
> my usual tortured prose, I can be very productive at a computer
> screen, but when push comes to shove in editing my work, i almost
> always print out a draft, triple spaced, and edit by hand.   I'm
> wondering how this might tie into the concern about productivity and
> quality.
>
> We all seem to know that we get a tickle in our pleasure centers when
> we are included in a conversation, but are there greater and lesser
> pleasures to pursue, will the pleasure of doing the 'great work'
> outweigh the pleasure of the next IM for those that become aware that
> there may be different sorts of pleasure, or will plurality of little
> joys win out....  thoughts?
> >
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