Unlike most of the other articles we’ve read, Clive Thompson on the New Literacy is pro online writing. The author starts out by talking about Andrea Lunsford, a writing and rhetoric professor at Stanford. She researched and collected over ten thousand writing samples to evaluate the writing styles of this generation. In her opinion “…technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it…” She found that with today’s generation we write a lot more than any other because of all of the “socialization” that we do online. They say that before the Internet Americans never wrote anything that wasn’t required, and now blogs, e-mails, comments, and chats have us writing more than we realize.
The author then wonders if the writing could be good. Lunsford says it is, the students are extremely capable at assessing their audience and writing in a way that would get their point across. The article also says that the students are enthusiastic about their writing because always doing it for an audience and not for a grade.
1. Why doesn’t reading and writing online seem to register as legitimate text that can be learned from?
2. If reading/writing through the New Media is as effective as this article tries to prove it is, why can’t/don’t more schools try using it?
3. How exactly does reading or writing online cause illiteracy among this generation?
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