1. By Jodi Wilson WRIT 371 Summer 2012

2. The significant digital change in writinghas encouraged a transformationalrelationship between authors, theiraudience, and how writing is created. 3. writ ingNOUN1.words written down: words or other symbols such as hieroglyphics writtendown as a means of communication2.written material: written material, especially considered as the product of awriters skill3.activity of creating books: the activity of creating written works, especiallyas a job Writing has always been a product of a specific authors creation, not always being considered as a collaboration between author and audience. With the current technologies this lack of collaborative communication is closing. 4. o Over time, writing has evolved into a massive means ofcommunication that is connecting people from all over the world.o The communicative technology allows *users*, also known as writers,to share records, opinions, and personal pieces of information withone another.o Technological advancements have created an entirely new way forauthors to develop, create, and share their texts to millions ofpeople around the world with the click of a button; a type of writingknown as digital writing that is creating a developmentalrelationship between author and reader.http://courses.rhetprof.net/eng4885/system/files/4885flyerwords1.png 5. Computers utilize print in a flexiblemanner, allowing immediacy incommunication, while enablingconcentration on the present moment,and eliminating distance between users. -Sharmila Pixy Ferris Digital writing creates a necessityfor the understanding of audienceand rhetoric. Facebook is used for short statusesthat are to the point. Blogs are used for a specificaudience such as sports fanatics ornew moms. Emails may be formal or informaldepending on author/readerrelationship. 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnvXy347Wv0&feature=em-share_video_userPlease follow the link (watch Click when youre ready to move from 2:42-3:54)to the next slide 7. It is extremely important thatwe as writers do not forgetabout skillful writing from thepast. There are an array of optionsavailable for authors to create. Audiences and writers arerelated to each other moreinteractively in time and space. 8. o Collaborative writingthus becomes aprocess discussing different discoursepositions and incorporating multipleaspects by rewriting and rearrangingthe articles (Kohl).o Statuses, blog posts, and emails are alldigital writings that allow for directand immediate responses from theintended (and sometimes unintended)audience.o The author/audience relationship caninstantly change to publisher/editor.http://socialconsulting.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/email-collaboration1.jpg?w=260&h=300&h=300 9. Cyber-writers have the potential to reach a large reading public, andwriting to a sizable audience thus becomes an option not open to mostwriters in non-electronic print. -Sharmila Pixy Ferris Digital writing has allowed for authors,The digital author creates whether it be of a status update on Facebook, a text with a specificAuthor design in mind, i.e. Facebook, Email, ora blog post on Blogger, or an email sentthrough Gmail, to reach a much larger Blogger.audience in a much shorter amount of time.This quick reader-response feedback allowsfor authors and audience to work together, asediting is always available in digital writing,unlike printed writing where a piece isDigital The text becomes digital writing once itultimately finalized after being published. Digital writing is encouraging a Text is shared with readers via the World Wide Web.transformation and world-wide connection incommunication. With a vast array of webpages to create, the possibilities are limitless,and with authors and audiences workingThe audience thencloser together than ever before a digital receives the digital textcommunity is evolving. from the author. TheAudience audience is capable to immediately comment or edit the digital text in response to the author. 10. Baron, Dennis. From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. E. Hawisher and Selfe. Utah State: Up, 1999. Print.Changed Context for Writing. Why teach digital writing?. The WIDEResearch Center Collective. N.d. Web. 14 June 2012 .Ferris, Sharmila Pixy. Writing Electionically: The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing. Journal of Electronic Publishing 8.1(Aug. 2002): n. pag. Web. 14 June 2012. .Kohl, Christian, Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Thomas Metten. Media Developmentand Textual Genesis of Wikipedia. Language and New Media. Ed Rowe,and Wyss. Houston. 2009. Print. Music: 009 Sound System - Dreamscape