Is Writing Changing?

Is writing changing..., writing is a living process, not dead like the Aztecs nor stagnant like a building. Writing is the process of weaving words together to form a complex or simple string of sentences that either tell a story or teach. The act of constructing such text is referred to as literature, man’s legacy. As a consequence of changes is the art of writing; as well as the mediums through which they or found and published, the way individuals read has changed. Now there’s the question of rather these changes have turned one of the greatest art forms into nothing more than a past time event, has the meaning of the words been lost, are reader no longer being enveloped by the stories they read?
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Who directs, who? Are we the conductor or the actor? It would appear the Internet is not an instrument of the public but a private enterprise, controlled by the few to manipulate the many; however, its effect on literacy is minimal and is not fully to blame for the present lack of focus and critical thinking enabled people. The problem lies in two places: (1) the source, and (2) the social norm. It was the norm that every morning you would read the daily paper, but now we watch TV and get the same information, it was the norm that you would buy books at a book store, now we order them only and have them shipped or we simple read and e-book. It is the founding principle of technology to make life easier, but in doing so people give certain skills that they pose. When the textile industry was born people lost the ability to create clothes from scratch, the same is happening now with the internet but on a more global and rapid pace. The internet has made it easy to a lot of things that were previously more involved such as shopping, communicating, and reading. People believe that reading on the internet is somehow different from …show more content…
With advances in technology, people grow lazier with every passing day. First came cars so we wouldn’t have to walk, then came phone so we would have to write, then came the computer so we don’t have to do calculations, then came the internet so know we don’t even have to leave our home, then came the cell phone now we don’t even have to talk to one another, and finally came the AI so now we don’t have to drive, remember our schedule, or even wake up at a time fashion for that matter. You can call technology a curse or a blessing it all depends on how lazy you want to be. But with it is not the fault of technology that we grew to be so lazy, no it is the lack of education to give something different to be more involved in. Education has tried to teach people the same thing for centuries and now wonder why things are different. In Letters to EJ a college professor writes about her growing disappointment in the quality of students in which she teaches. She goes to say, "I am dismayed by students' growing ignorance regarding sentence structure and other simple grammatical principles" (La Vista p. 9). La Vista writes about her dissatisfaction with English students of the day. Noting that with the emergence of the internet there has been a dip in both the quality and effort the students put forth. You can blame many things on the internet but a weak student is