Readin Respone 3

I choose for my out of class essay to do it on Clive Thompsons The New Literacy. Some of my main points throughout my article are how we are in a writing revolution, how technology effects the way students right and what actually constitutes good writing. The quote that im going to chooce from Sven Birkerts The Owl Has Flown is as follows “ By 1800 men were reading “extensively”. They read all kinds of material especially periodicals and newspapers and read it only once and then raced onto the next item”(pg 30). Sven Birkerts talks about how in the 1750’s people only had a limited amount of reading material to read so they were forced to read this particular item or items over and over again. Sven Birkerts calls this type of reading “intensive” reading, where you examine the same writing over and over again. This type of reading instilled a type of narrow range of traditional literature onto people of that age. This helps bring new light into my essay because it somewhat supports that technology is helping the way people do things such as writing and reading. Before the invention of newspapers and periodicals people read one thing over and over again what Sven Birkerts says as “intensive” reading. “Intensive” reading made cultures oblivious to the other types of literature that were being composed at those times because they examined the same type of writing over and over again thus instilling a sense of ignorance to others. When This is somewhat similar to the fact the we are in a writing revolution because technology seemed to have changed both for better or for worse. I can relate this to my paper because before the internet most people didn’t write at all outside of school or work unless they really had to write. When the internet was invented now people could write to the friends parents and socialize causing them to write at all times of the day. This can be compared relatively to the same concept that Sven Birkerts uses in the quote.