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Schools adjust how writing is taught in text age | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
"The number of text messages sent on cell phones has more than doubled from 48 billion in December 2007 to 110 billion in December 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010."
View from the Bookstore Shelf | Open Culture
But also try to build a following before you ever sell that first book. Do this not just because it’ll help you get a publisher, but because it can actually be the best thing you’ll ever receive: better than the advance, the editor and agent, even the final, hard-copy book in your hands. It’s the fans and finding them, and knowing they’re out there that will really lift you up and keep you going. The writer’s road is a long one, and the sooner you can find this support the better.
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com
The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing
My favorite things about the Weblog:
* good support for one-paragraph ideas
* great repository for personal thoughts, if only so that the author him or herself can go back later to review
* content over form; Webloggers generally use a standard style and don't play with colors and formatting the way that GeoCities authors used to
* distributed comment system; no need for the entire conversation to be on one server
* RSS feeds and aggregators
The Fischbowl: We Can Do This. We Should Do It.
We're living in the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history. [Great videos from Richard Miller at Rutgers with addtl comments by Karl Fisch.]
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We're living in the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history.
One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project
1. Read
Start reading. When you finish a snippet of text, click 'read more'. You will be presented with three unique paths that continue the story. If you like your options, keep reading.
2. Write
If you reach an end, or simply don't like the story's trajectory, graft a new snippet and take the story's direction into your own hands.
3. Publish
Publish so that others may add on to your story. If it gets ranked well and has enough offshoots it stays, if not, watch it wither
and die.
New slant on writing encourages participation
Elizabeth Shannon, an English teacher at West Allegheny High School, said she does a "real quick, two-day cram" on the five-paragraph essay before the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment writing tests.
"I tell them, you'll never write this way again," she said. "If they go off to college and write that way, they won't be looked on as good writers."
Instead of five-paragraph essays, she prefers exercises such as "rant" letters in which they write to someone about something they'd like changed and threaded written discussions on the Internet to students in Morocco.
Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II : CJR
So I think that’s going to happen here. The average quality of something written is going to fall to the floor because of the volume of written material. But the competition will mean that the premium for having something especially interesting is going t
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What I do think is potentially quite interesting is all of the work on filtering that says a big part of the value of information is actually downstream from its production. I would like to be reading or talking about what my friends are reading or talking about, or my colleagues are reading or talking about, or my competitors are reading or talking about. And this rise of social filtering—there’s an interesting phenomenon in the university world, where the number of papers jointly published by two or more researchers working in different institutions is on the rise. And it’s on the rise because it’s very… sitting at your desk, it’s almost easier to figure out, “Who else [in the world] is working on what I’m working on?” than to figure out, “What are my colleagues down the hall working on that isn’t like what I’m working on?” And that idea of information weakening the walls of the institution seems to me to be really beneficial for cross-disciplinary work. I mean, I think the fact that many of the people doing behavioral economics are psychologists is indicative of the kind of cross-disciplinary work we can potentially hope for in the future. So, I think that one of the ways to get around this filter failure problem is—you know, I refuse to use the term ‘information overload’ for obvious reasons—is to start deploying these social filters that assume that at least part of why I want to read or look at something is to be able to have valuable thoughts or conversations in tandem with other people.
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So if journalism is going from being a profession to an acitivity, then it all goes on a spectrum. There will be professional journalists, there will be journalists who practice journalism all day long for their jobs. And there’s going to be people like Chirapongse, for whom a single act of journalism may just define how they participate. But at that moment it’s pretty critical. So, I think news organizations are going to have a much harder time making a distinction between what it is they do.
WRITER'S TOOLBOX: 35 Best Tools for Writing Online
Whether you’re new to the world of authorship or a veteran trying to make the most of Web services and applications, there are a number of online tools for writers of all types. From blogging platforms to networking hotbeds, and job boards to real-world g
Linked Out : CJR:
The Internet makes knowledge more accessible, and the hyperlink is the building block of ths democratization of information. The hyperlink can connect an article to its sources or to other relevant articles pretty easily, helping to change the way we expe
Wired Sez “Kill Your Blog”… I’m Not Dead Yet (and neither are you) » CogDogBlog
I have strong guttural reaction to this incredibly glib, shallow analysis of a complex environment, of something which even an author in a glossy magazine cannot claim to have seen enough of to make such a sweeping statement. But it speaks more to a reaso
A New Type of University Writing Course
As part of this change, technology has radically extended the spaces for academic debate. In real ways, blogging and other forms of virtual debate actually foster the very types of intellectual exchange, analysis and argumentative writing that universitie
21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content
I am sure a lot of bloggers and web content creators realize the importance of good content and like me, they too try to write better articles everyday. To help them further, I decided that I'll scour some of the most well known blogs and sites which incl
Teaching Revision With Google Docs
Some nice resources for incorporating docs into the writing process.
Doug Noon-- Symbol Makers
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A writing curriculum that foregrounds the writer ahead of subject matter is in fact, student-centered, and has never before been so possible.
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