Writing and Technology   

The author discussed different teens' and their parent's thoughts towards writing technology such as texting, email, and social media.  Some people said that this is better way to enrich teens' writing skill while many others oppose the idea.  Many teens and their parents believe that technology is a major issue and as time goes by, teens' skill become weakened as a result of using technology features such as texting in their daily life.  I think one important feature that the author mentioned was teens' writing quality does not improve just because they write with computers.  This statement is true in a lot of ways.  The skill of writing does not change due to weather you use paper or computer to write.  To the have the skill, you just have to practice writing in your daily life until you become good at it.  The author used a very good research method, he included teens and their parents as well.  He had a lot of different answers from different people, even from different races as well.  This was the best way the author was going to get such answers.  This article was very organized, points were made clear and a lot of the answers were precise percentages.  One feature the author pointed out was " Teens are motivated to write by relevant topics, high expectations, an interested audience, and opportunities to write creatively."  I think that is very true to a lot of teens.  you will not find many teens write for fun, it is mostly known that teens write because they have to, for example if it is a writing assignment or it might be a topic that is highly interesting to a teenager.  On the other hand, there are those who do write for fun, you often find them interested in writing because that was the way they were raised, or they may find their future in writing.  The author had very good points listed in the article.  I think this research method was the best way to show how different people deal with writing and technology in this world today.  The best think I liked is that the author used not only teens but also parents in the research method.

1. There is not a big difference between my writing process and Emily's.  I think the major difference is that she listens to music while writing.  She also likes to be around people as well.  She said by her listening to music, she gets more focused into what she is writing.  Meanwhile on the other hand, I can not have any distractions around me what so ever.  No music, people, or any thing that could distract me while I am writing.  Another difference is she usually has a variety of snacks next to her while writing. Her favorite part of the writing is just the actually writing she thinks that editing and proofreading only waists her time.  She waits to the last minute which is what I do sometimes.  She and I both do not enjoy writing.  She uses post-it notes for her brainstorming process, she writes thoughts down on the post-it notes as she they come to her head.  I basically do the same thing only I write mine down on paper.  We both prefer to use a computer of some sort and use Microsoft word while writing.

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Murray writing process I think is different not only from mine, but from a lot of people.  I have never seen someone use a tape recorder to gather thoughts.  I also think that writing 8 drafts before turning a final in is unnecessary for me.  I do not have to write 8 drafts.

3 Berkenkotter learned that murray spends a lot of time on gathering thoughts and planning but he does not spend much on revising the text. Writers usually revise their final draft but after it has ben revised that draft is not a final anymore.

4. Time management with the revising and editing.  Berkenkotter talks about the difficulties people face while composing.  He believes a writer should edit the paper more than actually writing it and weakness still remain.

My writing process I believe starts with gathering thoughts and ideas, just writing them down.  I write down every thought that comes to my head on a sheet of notebook paper.  After I have done that I start outlining my text based on the ideas that I wrote down on my paper.  I have to be in a very quite, cool place where there is no noise to be heard or any thing that can distract me from writing.   After I outline I start my free writing which is putting the ideas and concepts into paragraph or text form.  After I finish writing I leave my paper alone and close out what ever I was writing on and leave the whole thing alone. The next time I start back writing is maybe like 5 hours later.  As I get back in my writing mode, I first edit any mistakes I have previously made when I wrote the paper the first time, Then I edit mistakes that I find.  After I have finished editing, I proofread and try to come up with more grammatical structured sentences then the ones already written.  After I do that, I let someone else proofread my paper for any other mistakes I have in the text .