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For our next writing project I will be arguing that “My Body”, by Shelley Jackson, is in fact a literary text and not a distraction. The focus of my paper will be about learning styles and how they have changed. I will argue in favor of electronic texts like Jackson’s because they are innovative, engage more senses than many novels today, and can in fact allow for deep reading. I will use Birkerts’ especially as a critical view, specifically his  concern that computers and electronic texts will take away from the reading experience. He uses the term “deep reading” often concerning novels and would probably believe that texts like “My Body” will take away from our ability to read deeply because of its short excerpts and links to other pages. In opposition of Birkerts, I will use “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, an article by Nicholas Carr, to support my argument that this electronic text is simply a different way to learn and not a distraction. I will use the point in the article that mentions that our minds are malleable and we can adjust and learn to learn in other ways. This new age of people are changing the way their minds read, not getting dumber. We can now read and gather more information by reading small amounts and even skimming. This electronic text just caters to our new method of learning and reading.