Yancey's Writing in the 21st Century

Before class on Wednesday, you should read Kathleen Yancey's "Writing in the 21st Century" (located on Canvas as a PDF file) and respond to the following questions in a blog post: 

1) What are the 3 challenges/opportunities of writing in the 21st century?

2) Why does Yancey explain writing as a technology that exists "in spite of?" What kinds of challenges has writing faced across history?

3) What is Yancey's main argument?

4) Why hasn't writing gotten as much cultural respect as reading? What kinds of feelings does reading produce? What about writing? Do you have any similar experiences?

5)What are some negative associations people make with writing?

6) What is process writing?

7)What is self-sponsored writing? Do you do any self-sponsored writing?

8) How is the 21st century the Age of Composition? The age of literacy?

9) What is the "so what?"/"why does this matter?" of this article?

10) How does this article implicitly define literacy? Does this definition align with any of the previous articles we have read/watched? Why or why not?