Writing and Technology

So this article starts off talking about how kids write an absolute ton through our teenage years. We write all through school, we write through social media, emails, texting, online messaging, and some even write fan fiction for fun. Writing for fun is kind of odd to me seeing I can barely get through this, but that is not the point. Then the article goes on to talk about the debate on if e-communication is damaging the way kids write or if it is inspiring kids to write more. So they hopped on the phone and start taking surveys on the subject from teens and their parents. It turns out that most all the teens from the survey agreed that forms of e-communication is purely communication. They seem to be considering this form of "writing" not even writing at all. They all seem to say there is a defining line between writing for personal reasons( such as texting, tweeting, emailing, etc..) and formal writing for school and school assignments. They also found that most teens do not believe that they incorporate all of their "social" writing habits but sometimes things slip through the cracks. Then the kids started fessing up that they know formal writing, where they may not enjoy it, will be essential in there future, higher education careers. Now the parents are starting to put their two cents into things. Parents are confessing that they write way more now in their everyday lives, then they ever did when they were teens. And the parents are also saying that their own kids are writing more now, in their teenage years, than the parents themselves ever wrote, during their teen years. Kind of interesting, huh? The government..pfsh. I also found it interesting that the study showed, the importance of writing is more valued in the household of African Americans and families of low income. it was also intriguing to know that teenagers, in their college preparatory English classes, believe that the instruction they are given about proper writing techniques is out dated and has room to improve. There's no clear winner in this debate, but we all have our own opinions.