1. LITERACY & TECHNOLOGY BY: MEGHAN GEE & NICKI GEIGER

2. HOW DOES WRITING CHANGE WITH EACH TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY WE USE? There are positive and negative effects of technology. Technology can help people learn more and give new ways to present information. Technology also helps people research and share their information, but it also can be a distraction and create a bad habit.

3. What is “literacy”? What is “technology”? Literacy is defined in “Writing About Writing” by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. They claim that literacy denotes fluency in a given practice. A good definition for Technology can be found in the introduction to chapter 5 in Wardle and Downs book. “Without technology, there is no writing”(684). The pencil is technologically equal to the computer. We all know these terms and use them, but do we really understand the true meaning of them….?

4. Technology’s impact on this generation ■Teens use technology all of the time. Most people use technology for social media, emailing, blogging, and texting. These are all different types of literacy, but teens don’t always count them. Some teens feel that texting is not writing, they feel writing is done in school for essays and notes. ■“Even though teens are heavily embedded in a text-rich world, they do not believe that communication over the internet or text messaging is writing.” (Lenhart, 712) ■While understanding the word literacy, texting can be a form or writing even if it is a technology. Writing is done in many different ways such as typing or using a pen on paper, but we want to focus on blogging and texting.

5. Do you think that texting and tweeting are forms of writing?

6. Twitter as a form of writing Using Keith Grant-Davie’s terms, this is a type of writing. -I am the rhetor of this tweet. A rhetor is easily thought of as the author of the tweet. - The exigence, or reason for writing, was to vent. I felt frustrated and stressed and wanted to share that feeling with my followers

7. Texting as a form of writing Using Grant-Davie’s terms, audience and rhetor, we can see that even a simple text like this can also be considered a piece of writing. The rhetor in this specific case is Kelly, my sister. She is the one who composed and sent the text. The intended audience of the text, is me. She only sent this text to me. The unintended audience is now everyone in this class. She didn't mean for all of you to see it.

8. “TEXTING” LANGUAGE BEING USED IN SCHOOL In the article “Writing, Technology and Teens”, people (including teens and parents) were asked questions about how technology affects writing and how important writing is. 49% of teens think that using computers make teens more likely to take shortcuts in writing. the same question was asked to parents and 45% had the same response.

9. Essay as a classic form of writing This is the typical essay you would write for school. When your teacher assigns it and you begin to write it you become the rhetor. When you write the essay, you always make sure that you use refined and proper language. It is more formal than a text message would be. You normally wouldn’t use this type of language in an everyday conversation. Text messages have slang that would not be used in an essay. This piece has all of the different components of a typical piece of writing.

10. So again we will ask, do you think that texting and tweeting are forms of writing?

11. ■We have come to the conclusion that texting, blogging, and posting are all forms of writing even if the exigence and the audience might change. ■ We use a different type of language when texting and tweeting, but they are all getting the point across. ■Without technology we would never even be able to write, so as technology evolves so do we.

12. References ■Vosloo, Steven. "The Effects of Texting on Literacy: Modern Scourge or Opportunity?" Http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.175.2588&rep=rep1&t ype=pdf. Shutterworth, Apr. 2009. Web. Nov. 2015|. ■Lenhart, Amanda, et al. “Writing, Technology and Teens: Summary of Findings.” Writing About Writing: A College Reader. 2nd Edition. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2014. 710-718. Print. ■Baron, Dennis. “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies.” Writing About Writing: A College Reader. 2nd Edition. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2014. 690-709. Print.