Word: readerly
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...they present (horizontally) reverses the image one typically sees in the mirror. The inevitable dissymetries of the human face make this reversal slightly disconcerting. And perhaps this is the best way to explain the differences I find coming to my ink-smudged text on Monday mornings, coming as a reader, no longer approaching from the inside...
Coming as a reader means encountering the peculiarity of text: isolated, stripped of inflection and emphasis; vulnerable to selective reading, selective sight, decontextualization. Stranger than seeing yourself grinning exquisitely in vacation photographs is hearing your own words thrown back against you: "I was reading the other day," a friend begins, "though I forget where...
...rater," a nifty tool that can grade essay questions in under a second, using advanced artificial-intelligence technology. ETS claims the scores the e-rater spits out match those given by human graders 97% of the time. That's as accurate as a second human reader...
...tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil of power, the preaching is subtle, the moral left to nag at the reader after the story is done...
...Europeans from the downtrodden states of the continent's core. They live in a fog of moral ambiguity, caught in the shifting alliances and "gray positions" of current events, until unexpected circumstances force them to make choices without understanding the consequences of their acts. These enigmatic men--and the reader--almost never find out what really happened. Not everything is revealed; the story trails off, just as in life...