In fact, you won't need to! (It'll be short). The Morkes and Nielsen article fits well with my web-reading practices, at least tonight. I jumped right to their short summary, but then I went back to the full article out of guilt. While reading the full article, however, I read mostly topic sentences, and scanned the rest! (How easily I'm persuaded by test results!) I did, however, bookmark the page for when I have "more time."
My biggest dissapointment, unlike some of our other posters, is that while I've been to Nebraska dozens of times, I've not been to one of its top six destinations! My mom, born and raised in NE, hasn't either! The good news is that I called her about this, and we now have a plan!
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Wow, I just realized that I shouldn't post when I'm extremely tired. What I meant above is that I found the study to be accurate for most of my web reading habits; as the authors pointed out, many people are overwhelmingly busy and simply cannot take the time to read through a bunch of bologny. I think oftentimes we look at something in "scan mode," and then go back to it when we have more time. I know that I will go back to this site, and I have already picked out portions of it that I will either pass along to my students, or show them at some point (for instance, the importance of clarity and brevity in writing for the web).
I don't know-- I've been assigned this article what feels like a million times, and no matter how hard I try, some of it is scan-only material! It is just a little too dry and detailed, and, like Jake's 8th graders, it makes me say "Duh!"
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