Is Technology Tuning Us All Into Writers?
September 1, 2009 by runkefer
From The Morning News, one of my favorite news aggregators, I was directed to this Wired Magazine article (Clive Thompson on the New Literacy) which highlights some changes in how younger people view writing.
The article focuses on the work of Andrea Lunsford, a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, head of the Stanford Study of Writing. From Thompson’s article:
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
She makes a good argument about the increased importance of writing in our society and how students have learned to consider the audience for their writing as part of the thought process of composition–something, I think, we all could do better. Take a look at the article.