"Writing, Technology, and Teens: Summary of Findings

 In the short article Writing Technology and Teens: Summary of Findings it talks about many things. It talks about how kids are using the internet to text their friends. It talks about how the internet is affecting the way they learn and are not being able to do the right thing. On the internet many students do not consider what they do is really writing because they do not use it in the proper way. When asked many students try to always find a shortcut to do their work. For instance when they are texting their friends they try to find shortcuts instead of writing the whole thing out. Like if they wanted to say “ we are going to the mall for alex” they would text it “ we r goin 2 da mall 4 alex” it makes it less to type. With that being said teachers are saying that when students do that it interfere with their work because they do not just put it on their phone but rather on their paper. Teachers even mentioned that many students are using emojis on their work that they turn in at school.  Teachers think that students should not spent so much time on their phones because of the interference it is having on their school work. Students believe that most of their school work always require writing. But students argue that when they write they only write to a paragraph to one page. Many teens do not just use the interent for writing but they also use the internet to do research students say that they have at least one research report done once a week.  When it comes to black kids they are more likely to write in their journal when compared to whites. Many think that girls keep up with their work more than boys which is some what true when you compare male to female side by side females are more likely to keep a journal rather than boys. With that being said students should spent less time on texting and on the internet due to the interfering of their school work.

Texting and Writing

Cullington, a speech pathology major, wrote the Texting and Writing article in Dr. Laurie McMillan’s first-year composition course at Maywood University. Cullington argued in her article whether texting affect the way student write or not. Cullington did a lot of research to make her argument more stronger she did surveys and asked high school student and college students several question and she also asked some teacher their opinion she found out a big different between the teacher perspective and the student. Cullington used evidence from source like USA today, Jacquie Ream and Naomi Baron whom all agree that texting has a negative effect on academic writing. Jacquie Ream was a teacher and author of K.I.S.S.-Keep it Short and Simple. In this book she wrote, “We have a whole generation being raised without communication skills.” Cullington in the end found out that text does not affect the school writing skills.  

According to Cullington research, some teachers think texting affect the student writing skills some teachers says “Texting may be fun and time saving with friends, but at affect the way student write in school.” Teachers also say school papers should have correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. Textspeak does not require correct spelling, many smart phones will autocorrect the spelling, or the writer brevis the words. Also grammar is not necessary to use while texting because text messages should be short. For all of that reason and more most of the teachers thing texting affect the way student write.

After reading Cullington article about texting and writing. I agree with her that text do not affect the way student write. I myself text and chat with my friends all day long, I also use texting during my business activities, so texting is part of our life but by the time we get to writing we do not use the same writing strategies we are using while we texting. Texting also help student to become a good writer somewhat because I think those student who text to much write more than those student who don’t text because their brain got use to come up with ideas and write quickly.  

from pencils to pixels

Dennis Baron is linguist who studied literacy. He wrote the article from pencils to pixels. The first thing he talked about in this article is computer and how it changed the whole world in the past fifteen years. When almost everybody started using computer in almost everything especially writing. He also pointed out how computer change his own writing technology “I found that I had become so used to composing virtual prose at the keyboard I could no longer draft anything coherent directly onto a piece of paper.” Baron said. Baron then discussed in the pencils to pixels article the Stages of literacy Technologies, humanists Technology, the technology of writing, what writing does differently, the penile as Technology, Thoreau and pencil technology and the computer and the pattern of literacy technology.

The most thing Baron discussed in his article is the development of the production of literacy technology. For example the pencil which is not different from that of the computer because of how at evolved through time and how it produced.

Baron’s focused in this article about the ideas of literacy technologies. The first thing is the discover of the new technology and the authentication. When there is a new product come out there is only few people be able to get at first. That mean the new product be available for only few people. When the product start be easy to get the public start to put at to use familiar thing. The last stage Baron pointed out is the authentication of the new product. Baron also describes writing as a technology in and of itself. Some say writing triggered a cognitive revolution and the invention of the printing press triggered a second cognitive revolution. There is no proof why writing was invented but we know that writing starts as a type of recording.

I think Baron’s Article is interesting because Baron viewed writing by hand as constricting. I understand where Baron is coming from in the sense during typing of keyboard is less of hand-writing. It was also interesting because it viewed writing as a product writing technologies.

Comparing Writing Processes

There is no big different between my writing process and my partner writing process the only different is that my partner writes her thoughts and   organizes them but i write whatever come to my mind than i organize them. Also i follow the Shitty first draft concept while my partner does not. 

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11-  I really found it to be too drawn out.  He takes a lot time taking notes and doing way to much revising in his work.  I do not do that much revising in my work.  I normally will reread my first draft few times where i changes some gremer and punctuation. 

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33-  Berkenkotter learned in his studies that Murray to do the planning and revisions than really necessary to complete those tasks. He does not spend much time on revising. She learned that the two are match to each other in many ways. She realizes that it makes sense for murray to write this way.

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44- The problem with existing methods for studying writing process time managment  with the revising and editing process. he states  the problem people have with editing. Berkenkotter says you must edit your paper more than you actually write at. Weaknesses still remain

My Writing Process

While I am writing I like to be in a quiet room setting in a chair drinking some coffee and having the laptop in the front of me and some paper beside me. I start writing my ideas in the paper than get my things organized and type them into the laptop. The first thing I do when I have a paper I start read about the topic I am writing about to come up with ideas. While I am reading I take note so I can come back to them to know what the topic was talking about. By the time I get done with the reading I come up with a paper topic based on my reading note. After I choose a topic I start collect ideas and do research about the topic I chose. The second thing I do after choosing a topic and collecting ideas I draft my theses statement then I start organizing thoughts. In this point I start organize my though and ideas into group than argue about them. I put them in different organization in the best order to come up with my outline. After I have my outline and my though in different group I start write anything that support them. If I get boarding while I am writing about one of them group I jump to another one and start writing about at. After I think that I wrote all of my though and I argued about them I start write the conclusion paragraph based on the whole paper and I check if my introduction is match with the whole paragraphs. In this point I share my draft with others and listen to their feedback. After that I go back to my draft and read what I have wrote and check If I have to add or remove some sentences or words. After that I let one of my friends check my paper or I go to the learning center and replace overused or unclear words and make sure that all the sentences is completed and make sense. After all of that I do my proofreading, I read my paper and check spelling and punctuation and MLA format and check if everything is good than I let someone read it again and see if there is something wrong with it.