1.) The personal experience I have with writing electronically is E-mail and Facebook mainly. I used to use IM a few years ago when it was more popular at my school, but it has since dissipated. I used a blog when blogging was more popular on xanga, but I never really became super knowledgeable about it. I am literally on Facebook every single day, I probably could not go a day without Facebook as sad as that sounds. I am horrible about checking my e-mail because most people that need to contact me do so by texting or calling me, but I am trying to get better.
2.) I feel when I use an electronic medium that my writing changes to some degree. When I am texting my friends or anyone for that matter most of the time I do not worry about adding grammar. I usually do not make the effort to make sure everything about a text or post on someone’s wall on Facebook has to grammatically correct because I know my friends will not notice. I am not one however that says “u” or “r” for you and are, but I do say “lol” and add smiley faces. I feel like typing on a computer however instead of sitting at a piece of paper to write a paper is more helpful to me. I like being able to type on word and be able to move pieces of my writing around because it sounds better in a particular area instead of trying to gather all my thoughts before I start a new paragraph writing on paper.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Electronic Writing
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Good points, Robin. Lots of people pay little attention to grammar/spelling when texting or instant messaging. How do you think this affects the way we communicate?
ReplyDeleteI think this affects the way we communicate by hurting what we have learned about grammar. Since people aren't using what they learn they are also possibly forgetting what they have already learned. If people were to use proper grammar more often they could only get better and more comfortable with grammar since practice does makes perfect.
ReplyDeleteWith writing, practice always helps -- but it rarely makes for "perfect" writing. Even the best writers make mistakes.
ReplyDeleteGrammar is certainly important, but in less formal settings, where the primary goal is to communicate, a shortened word or phrase makes sense. The problems occur when these informal utterances find their way into more formal writing (academic papers, e-mails to a boss on the job).