Sobriquet 105.1: An Unexpected Joy
It's been ages since I've written anything here and I can't say that this post will be substantial or otherwise interesting to anyone except for myself, but I feel compelled to share a small observation with the world nonetheless. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been handwriting letters for the first time in what must be decades. While I have long been aware of the studies that suggest taking notes by hand is better for memory retention and improves learning , I nevertheless persisted in typing on a keyboard for virtually all of my writing. As an academic, I write all of my conference papers, journal articles, and monograph manuscripts on a computer. I wrote both my master's thesis and my doctoral dissertation with a keyboard. While I do take notes by hand and put marginalia on printed copies of the journal articles I read, I still transfer all of those notes to a computer file before I begin writing. I mention this because, for all intents and purposes, I am not ...
