Reading for November 23

Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong,  is available through York E-Resources.  You can find it by logging into e-resources and searching the Scholar’s Portal Journal. This is a great book and will greatly aid your understanding of the course, so I do recommend reading the whole book when you get a chance.  However for our class: I will only require you to read the excerpts below: (this is longer than our usual reading - but it is more straightforward presentation of material so I am hoping not as energy consuming to decipher)

Using this copy of the book I would like you to read the following sections

Introduction: p 1-3

Chapter 1: 5-13 (end of top/first paragraph)

Chapter 3:  31-40 (to end of page 40)

Chapter 4: p. 81: Starting with “Writing is a technology header” to the bottom of page 95

Chapter 5: p. 117 Starting with the second paragraph from the bottom which begins with the phrase Manuscript Culture... TO ....p. 127 middle of page to the end of the paragraph that comes just before the header “More Diffuse Effects”

Chapter 6:  p. 137-138; p. 145 whole page to 148 whole page