Mapping The Writing Of First Year College Students

So this article starts off questioning the caliber of literacy in writing, amongst  first-year college students. They have set up a study to find just what kind of writing these young students are getting into in their first year. Just like in every other article we have read this month,they have found that kids are generally spending most of their time writing with technology. Such as: texting, instant messaging, emailing, fan fiction writing online, and general typing essay's and papers for classes. Once again, just like every other article we have read, manly kids are only writing in these ways, and doing these surveys are shedding light on the contemporary values in the way teens are writing nowadays. It also shed light on just how important our "hand held" devices are to us. We honestly could not survive without them, and even I feel completely lost when I have forgotten my phone at home that day. This is really sad, but it is really true. They have found all of these things through a survey given to students enrolled in their first year of college, in their first year writing class. The survey asked quite a bit of demographic questions, and of course, questions about writing. They were then asked to rank their top five writing types that they do most often. Then they were asked which writing types they valued the most. As you probably already guessed,after they averaged out everyone's results, the number one writing type was texting, followed by e-mail at number two, and lecture notes at number three. What I did not mention was that even though the technology writing was at the very top, academic writing was still in the top five as most used and valued. I think this caught the researchers a little off guard, but I think it is something their little hearts should just swell over. I mean, I understand it being one of the most commonly used, I mean come on, I am academically writing right now, but I was kind of shocked at it being so high on the most valued list. And this was basically the gist of the entire article.