{"id":1084,"date":"2015-06-07T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2015-06-09T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:50:58","slug":"module-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/2015\/06\/07\/module-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s reading, in \u201cWriting space\u201d David Bolter brought forward many great ideas and raised interesting discussion. He explored the history of writing technology from carving in stone to papyrus scroll to the computer. Since all kind of information and data is digitalized therefore Botler calls this time <em>as the late Age of print<\/em>. Further he looks at how changes in technology challenge more traditional forms of engaging material. He focuses readers attention on material practices as he claims that writing spaces are both material and visual fields, &#8220;whose properties are determined by a writing technology and the uses to which that technology is put by a culture of readers and writers&#8221; (p.g 12).<\/p>\n<p>People are becoming more reliant on computers. As Bolter indicates that there is a shift, taking place throughout our culture. I agree to Bolter that computers have redefined the writing space and therefore writing process will never be the same. Clearly in this digital era, internet has privileged the visual over the verbal, and the interactive over the static. From my current experience of working with EFL, students find writing process a difficult one. But now there are many interactive resources available which can make writing more engaging and interesting like using vocabulary builders, mind mapping tools or some other programs like <em>Writer&#8217;s Software Companion<\/em> program that facilitate genre convention.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, writing is a creative process and cannot be done in isolation. As Ong suggest in chapter 3 that these are immediate, internalized and holistic life experiences and cannot occur in isolation. Furthermore, today writers have greater opportunities to build effective readership through participation on various online writing communities like blogs, webinars or other social media platforms etc.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Bolter, J. D. (2000). <em>Wrting Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print.<\/em> Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Ong, Walter. (1982.)\u00a0<em>Orality\u00a0and literacy: The\u00a0technologizing\u00a0of the word<\/em>. London: Methuen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s reading, in \u201cWriting space\u201d David Bolter brought forward many great ideas and raised interesting discussion. He explored the history of writing technology from carving in stone to papyrus scroll to the computer. Since all kind of information and data is digitalized therefore Botler calls this time as the late Age of print. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041019,334561,800002,1231379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanization-before-and-after","category-orality-and-literacy","category-post-2","category-re-module-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540summer15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}