2. The significant digital change in writing
has encouraged a transformational
relationship between authors, their
audience, and how writing is created.
3. writ · ing
NOUN
1.
words written down: words or other symbols such as hieroglyphics written
down as a means of communication
2.
written material: written material, especially considered as the product of a
writer's skill
3.
activity of creating books: the activity of creating written works, especially
as a job
Writing has always been a product of a specific
authors creation, not always being considered as a
collaboration between author and audience. With
the current technologies this lack of collaborative
communication is closing.
4. o Over time, writing has evolved into a massive means of
communication that is connecting people from all over the world.
o The communicative technology allows *users*, also known as writers,
to share records, opinions, and personal pieces of information with
one another.
o Technological advancements have created an entirely new way for
authors to develop, create, and share their texts to millions of
people around the world with the click of a button; a type of writing
known as digital writing that is creating a developmental
relationship between author and reader.
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5. “Computers utilize print in a flexible
manner, allowing immediacy in
communication, while enabling
concentration on the present moment,
and eliminating distance between users.”
-Sharmila Pixy Ferris
• Digital writing creates a necessity
for the understanding of audience
and rhetoric.
• Facebook is used for short statuses
that are to the point.
• Blogs are used for a specific
audience such as sports fanatics or
new moms.
• Emails may be formal or informal
depending on author/reader
relationship.
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7. • It is extremely important that
we as writers do not forget
about skillful writing from the
past.
• There are an array of options
available for authors to create.
• “Audiences and writers are
related to each other more
interactively in time and space.”
8. o “Collaborative writing…thus becomes a
process discussing different discourse
positions and incorporating multiple
aspects by rewriting and rearranging
the articles (Kohl).
o Statuses, blog posts, and emails are all
digital writings that allow for direct
and immediate responses from the
intended (and sometimes unintended)
audience.
o The author/audience relationship can
instantly change to publisher/editor.
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9. “Cyber-writers have the potential to reach a large reading public, and
writing to a sizable audience thus becomes an option not open to most
writers in non-electronic print.”
-Sharmila Pixy Ferris
Digital writing has allowed for authors,
•The digital author creates whether it be of a status update on Facebook,
a text with a specific
Author design in mind, i.e.
Facebook, Email, or
a blog post on Blogger, or an email sent
through Gmail, to reach a much larger
Blogger.
audience in a much shorter amount of time.
This quick reader-response feedback allows
for authors and audience to work together, as
editing is always available in digital writing,
unlike printed writing where a piece is
Digital •The text becomes
“digital writing” once it
ultimately finalized after being published.
Digital writing is encouraging a
Text
is shared with readers via
the World Wide Web. transformation and world-wide connection in
communication. With a vast array of web
pages to create, the possibilities are limitless,
and with authors and audiences working
•The audience then closer together than ever before a digital
receives the digital text community is evolving.
from the author. The
Audience audience is capable to
immediately comment or
edit the digital text in
response to the author.
10. Baron, Dennis. “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies.”
Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. E. Hawisher and
Selfe. Utah State: Up, 1999. Print.
“Changed Context for Writing.” Why teach digital writing?. The WIDE
Research Center Collective. N.d. Web. 14 June 2012 <http://www.tec
hnorhetoric.net/10.1/coverweb/wide/kairos3.html>.
Ferris, Sharmila Pixy. “Writing Electionically: The Effects of Computers on
Traditional Writing.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 8.1(Aug. 2002): n.
pag. Web. 14 June 2012. <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/t ext/text-
idx?c=jep;view=text ;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0008.104>.
Kohl, Christian, Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Thomas Metten. “Media Development
and Textual Genesis of Wikipedia.” Language and New Media. Ed Rowe,
and Wyss. Houston. 2009. Print.
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