{"id":17,"date":"2025-09-28T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:11:09","slug":"task-4-manual-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/2025\/09\/28\/task-4-manual-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 4: Manual Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This task was harder than I thought! I started off thinking how hard would it really be to write down a few words but I had no idea writing five hundred words by hand would take me this long, and make me think so hard. I wrote a page thinking this may be five hundred words but it was only a hundred! I use my diary to occasionally write down my feelings, make plans, track goals etc but writing something creative after so long turned out to be a challenge. At this point in life, I am more used to typing although back when I used to be in school, writing by hand was the norm and not a challenge at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I made a mistake, I either just went along with the mistake, disregarding it, or cut out the word to write what I wanted. While writing by hand, I realized I care less about the mistakes than when I am typing. I also tend to reread my typed sentences for grammar or spelling mistakes, or they are automatically highlighted so I am more aware of them. While writing, I did not bother rereading what I\u2019d written and just went along with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also after writing for a while, my handwriting automatically became sloppier than when I had started and it almost looked like I changed fonts. But I did not care as I realized I am immersed in the process. Much more so than when I am typing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I definitely used to think typing and writing by hand were interchangeable ways of jotting down words but I was wrong. Typing on digital devices has literally changed the way we think on a very deep level. At least for me, it no longer requires the same attention span or focus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I prefer both ways for different reasons and contexts and would not want to lose the ability to write with my hand ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This task was harder than I thought! I started off thinking how hard would it really be to write down a few words but I had no idea writing five hundred words by hand would take me this long, and make me think so hard. I wrote a page thinking this may be five hundred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540mabid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}