"Clive Thompson on the New Literacy"

In the article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” Thompson suggest how people like John Sutherland think technology is killing our literacy. Also technology is making us lazy and is ruining our English. They say our new English is “bleak, bold, and sad short hand.” Thompson has a different view to that he agrees with Andrea Lunsford who is a professor at Stanford university. They believe writing is evolving because people now a days write more than people used to. People who write a lot today are mostly kids who use the computer a lot. Those kids are exceptional at social expression. They write to an audience and now how to write and get things through to them. New kinds of writing are very unique, but we use them every day. For example facebook , we type a lot on there with our updates and posts. Also we can talk to people on there and when we do that we have to be able to describe stuff through writing so who ever someone is talking to there audience will know what they are reading and how to feel about the subject. The new writing is also more fun. New writing allows anyone to express how they feel about anything. People don’t have to be so trapped with what they write about and have to be worried someone is going to grade you down because you had the wrong opinion about the subject. When someone thinks of something to tell someone they normally text it to a friend right? Well that is writing when you text its just not the most academic writing there is. I believe with Thompsons idea when he says “I think we are in the midst of a literacy revolution”. I think the old kind of writing is very boring and I don’t like it. With the old kind its mostly just trying to impress someone with fancy words and trying to be perfect. I don’t think that is what writing is about. Writing in my opinion should be about what you feel and what you want to talk about. When someone tells you what to talk about it is right on the spot and you will have no clue what to say on your paper and it will take an extra long time. If teachers let people talk about what they enjoy I think the teachers would find out that people would have better descriptive writing because they will know all about the subject if the person already enjoys it. Now I know some teachers think that texting or emailing is going to effect the writing a person does in the class room, but Andrea Lunsford did a test and examined all of the students work and found no sign of any of the texting shorthand language in any of their work. The new type of writing has given us a ability to write enormously long complex pieces of work, often while working well with others.