On the New Literacy

In Clive Thompson's article on the New Literacy he suggests that technology is not killing our ability to write but reviving it. He mentions a professor of writing and rhetoric, Andrea Lundsford, who conducted a study of 14,672 student's writing. The types of writing she collected were everything from in-class assignments to blog posts and chat sessions. What Lundsford discovered was fascinating--today's youth actually write much more than any previous generations. These previous generations almost never wrote anything that wasn't school or job related. In Lundsford's study, a striking 38% of all writing was done outside the classroom which She calls "life writing".

My own view is that its pretty impressive that my generation can express themselves so well. I don't think that this would have been possible without all the technology we have today.