Thursday, November 7, 2013

Yancey's Writing in the 21st Century

In Yancey's article, he addresses three challenges and opportunities of writing in the 21st century.  These include developing a new method or model of writing, coming up with a curriculum to support such methods, and then creating models to teach the methods.  This article urges Americans to write more and also wants us to encourage others around us to write more so that we can create a more literate society.  Yancey's article addresses the problems within our culture that underrate writing and its influence.  Yancey also discusses the emotions attached with writing and reading.  Reading has a positive connotation that invokes pleasure but writing has gained a negativity around it that is often referred to as painful and isolating.  The 21st century is becoming the Age of Composition because people are starting to involve themselves a lot more heavily in writing.  Could the 21st century come even closer to closing the literacy gap that is so prevalent in America?

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