Journal #4 Digital

Robert Castle

3.17.15

ENC 1145

Journal #4

            What writing is can never be changed. Writing is purely the recording of our spoken words or thoughts through the use of letters that is written down onto some source. Even the carving on a tree is writing. JR + KT = forever may not be a full, well constructed sentence, but it is a written record of the fact that they were there and the feelings they had at that time carved on a tree. Also, writing does not have to last. The above mentioned love recording will be on that tree for a while. However, even the chalk writings on a drive way done by a child that will be washed away with a hose that day is writing. It may not stay very long, but it is still recording words.

            Digital writing doesn’t change what writing is or can be. It does change the way writing is read, stored, shared, and it creates a different medium for writing. Digital writing has even made us have to invent a different way to use our hands to write. No longer do we need a pencil and paper. We need a keyboard, and we need to move our fingers in a poking manner. Another change has been that our language has become more abbreviated or what we refer to as “text talk”. Digital writing is the most easily accessible, and now the most influential type of writing, but that hasn’t changed what writing is. Writing is still what it has always been.