NEW LITERACY

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In the article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy”, Thompson writes about how technology has an big impact on our writing. I agree with Andrea Lunsford, a Professor at Stanford University, who believes “technology isn't killing our ability to write, it's reviving it.” With the internet, people in today’s world write more often than before. With social networking websites like Facebook and chats online, it has allowed people to communicate with text then in earlier generations. In today’s world, professor Lunsford realized that when students write for an audience it “gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing.” With a class assignment, students consider the professor not to be an audience therefore; they are “less enthusiastic about their in-class writing.” With the internet reviving the way we write, “Knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all.”

As a teen in today's world it is true that technology is the new literacy of today's world. Everyday, its seems that everything i do has to do with some form or technology. Basically, technology rules the world. I believe that if there was not this much technology not that many people will write. Technology gives you the opportunity to read and especially write more. If its a text message, a blog response, or a chat response you are still creating some form of writing. It may seem that old traditional reading are becoming extinct like the newspaper, but with new technology people would be able to access the same newspaper on the internet or on the go with their cell phones. to me, new technology is the best way.
Question:
1. Is this article any different than the other articles we have read?
2. Do you agree that “technology isn't killing our ability to write, it's reviving it” or is it actually killing our ability to write.
3. Is the internet to really blame for the change in writing?


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In the article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy”, Thompson writes about how technology has an impact on our writing. I agree with Andrea Lunsford, a Professor at Stanford University, who believes “technology isn't killing our ability to write, it's reviving it.” With the internet, people in today’s world write more often than before. With social networking websites like Facebook and chats online, it has allowed people to communicate with text then in earlier generations. In today’s world, professor Lunsford realized that when students write for an audience it “gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing.” With a class assignment, students consider the professor not to be an audience therefore; they are “less enthusiastic about their in-class writing.” With the internet reviving the way we write, “Knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all.”
Question:
1. Is this article any different than the other articles we have read?
2. Do you agree that “technology isn't killing our ability to write, it's reviving it” or is it actually killing our ability to write.
3. Is the internet to really blame for the change in writing?