ENGL 505B

Ellen Evans and Jeanne Po’s article brings to the fore an idea that surprises quite a few instructors: “Thus, it would seem that hypertext fiction may offer the epitome of aesthetic reading, and yet many students in this study staunchly argued that the digital texts could hardly be considered literary” (64). This asks for a revision of the pedagogical approaches we employ when teaching digital texts. Although the authors present this issue as characteristic of the millennials, I would argue that it is also characteristic of other groups, such as the generation X. Evans and Po propose that we must focus on the students’ experience of reading and on “creating meaningful digital texts rather than pages with links” (71).