"As people grew accustomed to writing down their thoughts and reading the thoughts others had written down, they became less dependent on the contents of their own memory" (Carr 177).
When I was in elementary and middle school, I was taught how tot write a paragraph. My teachers always told me that it should be a certain length, have a body, closing, and to make sure to have a catchy first sentence. The teachers said "catchy", not something that would insult the reader. This is the first sentence of one of Carr's chapters, one of which I clearly am opposed to.
Yes, I do agree that we write thing down, whether it be on paper or a computer, to remember them, but that's it. Remember v. 1 keep in the memory; not forget. 2 bring back into one's thought. Our brains are so busy and contain so much information that we are bound to forget certain things.
Just because we need to be reminded of things sometimes, does not mean that our brains are completely useless. The reason we remember things is because it is in our brain somewhere and our reminder sparked it's existence. When we write things down, it clearly comes from somewhere. If anything, writing things down helps to increase our memory.
For example: When studying for a test, just looking over something it makes it difficult to remember things. When we write them down, we are drilling in into our brains to help hold onto the information. Our memories will be just fine as long as we have a couple reminders along the way. Writing things down only increases our need to remember things, therefore I disagree witht the quote at the beginning of the entry.
~ Nicole VanKuilenburg
I agree with Nicole on the quote she chose. I believe that once we write down information and focus on remembering it for say a test, we are dependent on our memory to remember what is needed. Usually just looking information over is harder to stick to memory, but when written or typed on a computer, it helps our memory jot it down in our brains too.
ReplyDeleteJacque Rideout