Before class on Friday, you should closely read and annotate (highlight, underlines, circle, and look up unfamiliar words) Shirky's article "Gin, Television, and the Cognitive Surplus" (located on Canvas as a PDF) and then do the following:
1) What is this article about? What is the main argument Shirky is making?
2) How does this article define literacy? How does this definition either coincide or differ from the 2 previous articles (Wolf and Carr) we have read?
3) What is a cognitive surplus?
4) Why does this article matter?
5) Use the Method to analyze the article (pg. 26 in Writing Analytically) by looking for patterns of repetitions, strands of similarities, binaries, and anomalies.
6) Choose one repetition, strand, binary, or abnormality and write a paragraph on why this aspect of the article is the most important in understanding what the text is saying.
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