We're Entering a New Era of Literacy

As days go by we are heading into the future. As we do so, technology is improving dramatically. In the digital age, ever since the send button was produced, digital technology is the blame of ruining the quality of writing. It is being said that the more we write online, the worse writer’s we become. The main idea of this article is that the modern students are getting sloppier and are losing the clarity within their writing.

After reading this article, I do agree with the main concept that is being said. The internet is blurring how students do their work. The clocks ticking and our writing styles are loosing its clarity. When I look at the modern students these days I can relate them to the issue which is being focused on. In English class, when I need to edit many written work, I can say that I do find many careless and flawless mistakes. Such as U-you, Aight-alright, Rite-right, etc. almost 3/4 of the school spends about 5 hours online. During so they loose their writing conventions. Although they don’t mean to make the mistakes, they tend to do because they are so used to writing on MSN for 5 hours straight using short forms.

At the same time, after reading this article I don't agree. They state that the more we write online the worse writers we become. This statement really stood out to me as I thought about it. Our school and online life’s are completely different. When at school we tend to write properly and remember all our writing conventions. At home, we don’t forget but rather write in short form since it’s faster to get a message across. By talking in short form, I do believe that it can get carried away onto our written school work, but this does not change the fact that we become worse writers. All going back to the fact that Prof. Lunsford said "our research now show’s that writers always make mistakes of some kind". Going back to my point of how, school work and online chatting are different but the effects of online chatting may get dragged into the school work accidentally. Reminding that we make mistakes and aren’t forgetting our writing conventions.

Our writing styles I believe are actually getting better. We may have trouble with the writing conventions but our spelling and grammar itself is improving. I can say this because when I was in civics and had to do our Toskan portfolio, many groups received a 4 to a 4+ on their spelling and grammar category. In the article it did mention that spelling now accounts for only 6 percent of errors. After reading this I was quite shocked, but really impressed.

Therefore in conclusion I believe that as we head into the future into our destiny, writers who spend more time online will not become worse writers. A fact that will always remain true is that humans make mistakes. Ever since I was a child growing up I was taught that we learn best by our mistakes.