writing, technology and teens

This article is very modern and about mostly this modern generation of technology. “93% of teens say they write for their own pleasure” that basically means the social networks, texting, and other social communication with family and friends or “followers”. Although teens write almost all day 60% of teens do not think of these electronic texts as “writing.”  Parents also believe that their children write way more than they did at that age and some parents are not educated enough to read or write. Technology is great and is very helpful in this modern world but there is a much bigger problem  that the fear that  teenagers and younger generation will not be able to use or learn formal writing because of the electronic education. “A considerable number of educators and children’s advocates worry that James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was right when he recently suggested that young Americans’ electronic communication might be damaging “the basic unit of human thought – the sentence.” They are worried that the quality of writing by teenagers is being demeaned by their social communication using electronics that basically corrects almost to anything from spelling, punctuation, grammar and most importantly its shortcuts. It changes the known basic formal writing, it makes it very easy to the point that you can speak and the computer will write. There is not real formal writing were a person has to write words directly from the mind with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. People in the future will not know how to spell or write correctly without using any electronic devices to correct the mistakes. People will not think and use their mind more and be heavy thinkers which leads to major education problems. Informal writing will be much used by the young generation due to spending large amounts of time writing incorrect language without even realizing it. Teenagers still believe that the writing instructions they receive in school could be improved by basically spending more time writing in class. A lot of parents say that good writing is an essential skill for later success in life. I have also experienced many parents that are educated talking to their kids and advising them to write formal write their texting which will strengthen their writing as they grow and can use it in school and in life because they are used to it which becomes easy.

Murray

QDJ 1, 3, 4 (WaW 608)

1. 
I didn't think that Murray would spend most of his time planning and revising.  It would only make sense that Murray would plan everything out before writing anything down or making anything official but I never considered that idea before now. For me I spend more time planning before I write.

3.

Berkenkotter was surprised that so much time was spent in the planing stage.  Her understanding changed as she made the realization that planning and revision are very closely linked and the two often times go hand in hand. 


4.It specifically targets the revising and editing of the paper. Berkenkotter says that you should spend more time editing and revising than you do actually writing the paper.

My writing process

1. Read: In my opinion this step is the most important because when I read and understand what is the topic is saying or meaning I can get tons of ideas of how am going to start the paper and organize it well . Then I search for additional information on the topic to help me through out the paper.

2.Think: I kind of start thinking of what I'm going to write and how I'm going to write it especially the introduction because it guides me to write paper more organized. I search for as much information as I can get and usually write it down. I think it is the most difficult step in the writing process because I have to find all the right information for the paper.

3.Organize: After Ive gathered all of my ideas and information for the paper I start on organizing it so it can fit in perfectly in the paper and makes great sense. Basically like an outline.

4.Freewrite: I usually just start writing down all the organized ideas and shape the writing into and paper sometimes it may not make any sense but I always go back and underline or mark where it needs to be changed and kind of get the information together so it can tie together and make sense.

5: Structure freewrite: After the shaping it becomes a structure and it just needs a proofread and edit for the first draft.

6: Revise: I usually have many run-on sentences and some sentences just doesn't make any sense so When ever I'm writing leave blanks to go back fill it up or even delete it. I need to start using better larger words than what I've been using. So sometimes I search the thesaurus for similar words and replace them.

7. Edit:Before I jump to proofreading I go back after I'm completely done and reread the paper and change several things on the way. Sometimes I have to read it 3 times to make sure it sounds right because if it doesn't sound right then I'm using the wrong word choices.

8. Proofreading: For my last paper I didn't have enough time to get someone good to proofread the paper so this time I will and make sure it is right because I usually have more errors than I think.

rose

 Rose

1.
The Beginning is everything, a writer should immediately get a readers attention in the text.
     b. Sentences should be written grammatically correct.
      c. three or more points should be included in an essay.
      d. do not make an outline complex because it can make your composing harder.
      e. if the first paragraph is good, then the rest of the essay should be good.
 I think some times I have a hard time writing correct grammatical sentences but it does not happen much often.

2. I think nun -blockers are more flexible than blockers and they also know their audience very well. nun-blockers don't pay attention to the rules like the blockers do.

4.

• An algorithm is typically deterministic and proven to yield an optimal result
• A heuristic has no proof of correctness, often involves random elements, and may not yield optimal results

sommers

1. Writers in school tend to change vocabulary and make better more difficult terms to make their writing better where as experienced writers look at the content, structure, form and the actual rewriting of a piece. 

3. writing you have the opportunity too revise. The reason it is relevant to revision is because knowing the difference gives you the capability to use it.but Sommers is trying to point out that there in no possible way to revise a speech, but you can revise writing.

5.writers don't have a certain set pattern in their writing. I think that she means writing should be done from what you think about and you should no have some straight line process from beginning to end and that experienced writers write this way.

7. I think revising is the most important part of writing. If you don't revise your paper then there really was no reason to write it in the first place.

"Prior" Questions

"Prior"

Questions on  2, 3, 4, 5, & 7 (WaW 526)

QDJ 2, 3, 4, 5, & 7

 2. he has multiple ways a reader can trace. here is a list of tracing the writing process-- Relating Text to Source Texts.- Trace Intertextual Relations between Talk and Text- Relating Text to an Initiating Text-Concurrent accounts.-Using naturalists accounts.Process logs.Integrating data from multiple sources.

3. I think composition comes before inscription. because 
composition is when the writer writes his thoughts out.
Inscription is the action of putting the composition onto action of writing a paper. 

4. It lets the radar know that all the people and minds it took to make what is written possible.

5.I think its important to determine who wrote the words and where they came from and to be able to trace the writing process we must trace the structure of participation. 

7. Concurrent makes looking at a writer inscription and writing alone difficult to see what is going on in the text.  Retrospective rely on someone's memory which I think that is not a good way to write a text because sometimes a writer does not remember everything that happened.  Naturalistic account deals with a lot of image use.  Semi-structured interviewing is a series of questions that can be looked bak into after the interview is over.  Stimulated Elicitation interviewing wants a response based on a person memory, I think both of the interview process I find my favorite but with the semi-structured being the prior one.

what I've learned after doing my narritive

I've learned how to write with descriptive writing and i just need to keep practicing. I still need to learn how to keep my mind on the topic because I usually get carried away and get off topic. I also learned how to limit my long sentences and not make too many run on sentences. I still need to practice and learn how to improve my grammar when writing papers.