What's Lost As Handwriting Fades By Maria Konnikov An Analysis

"Dead White Writer on the Floor" and "Keeper'n Me" are both examples of Indigenous literature that employ humour as a postmodern stylistic device while incorporating elements specific to Indigenous storytelling. In the first chapter of "Keeper'n Me," written by Richard Wagamese, we are given the point of view of an older variation of the main character, Raven Garnet. Throughout this chapter, Wagamese adopts a humorous tone and engages in self-deprecating humour by presenting themselves as an older man who has experienced many trials in life. An example being ¨Hard to find your way sometimes in life.

In her essay "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington presents her argument that texting does not impact formal writing written by students. She discusses the concerns presented by many people about how texting language can transfer into writing, but through the use of personal experiences and credible sources she discusses how this is not true. Her use of multiple different studies and situations help boost her argument and allow the reader to truly see how students actually do formal writing. She presents a strong argument as to why those who believe students don't have the control and knowledge to write formally, instead of with text speak, are wrong.

In Ann M. Martins, “Lost Art of Letter Writing,” One of the protagonists Jennifer, a girl in eighth grade with flawless grades, changes throughout the story. Jennifer was given a pen pal named Alice (Allie). In her letters, Jennifer acts snobbish and self-absorbed. She speculates things about Allie. When they keep writing, she becomes less subjective and learns to not infer things about others.

Though the world is becoming dependent on technology, are we becoming overly dependent? Cursive writing is an important writing skill that should be taught in schools, that is on the edge of becoming extinct. At least 41 states in the United States don’t require public schools to teach cursive anymore. This will greatly affect students because not everything is capable of being done on the computer. Even though technology is a great agricultural advancement cursive writing is still a beneficial tool to be taught and not overlooked.

Out of the two basic ways to write, some people enjoy writing the old fashion way with a pen and paper. Others take a more modern approach using a computer and keyboard. Attending elementary school in the big computer boom era of the mid-nineties, my generation was one of the first to actually have a “computer lab” type of class. Since those days every word assignment I have ever had was completed using a computer. If I ever used a pen and paper and pen it is only to take quick notes that are barley legible, only to transfer them on to a computer at a later time.

In the end, David Zinczenko should have mentioned my points in his writing. He should have addressed some of my reasons in his writings because fast food restaurants are spending millions of dollars on advertisements, he should have mentioned some benefits of eating healthy, lack of parent’s involvements, and fast service is being provided by the restaurants. If we add these all up, then it’s all our fault that we are eating junk food on daily bases because at the end you have to make decisions for this kind of situations. You could be healthier if you will make a right decision then you will live a healthy life because junk food is high in sugar, sodium and many other things that is harmful for your health. It’s all your choice to make right

I can’t dance the tango, but I can dance Bachata, but they’re not the same thing. I was four, sitting on my grandmother 's lap, in the living room, watching with awa as she formed beautiful and perfectly rounded cursive letters. After she was done, she gave me the pencil, signaling that it was my turn to write. I took the it into my hand and began to write. I didn’t even finish my first word, when she slapped the pencil out of my hand and said I was doing it wrong.

Teaching people to write has been around for just as long, but it seems as though students today simply aren't getting it. Students appear to be lacking in many of the writing skills, such as punctuation, grammar, and generally are falling below proficient in tests based around writing skills. Esther Cepeda of The Washington Post's writing group stated that "Just 24 percent of students in the eighth and 12th grades performed at the proficient level in writing, meaning that they demonstrated a clear understanding of the writing task they'd been assigned. " If only 24 percent of students are showing that they have writing skills at the level that they should be at, then shouldn't a change be made in the curriculum for writing? It also should be noted that teachers all have their own way of teaching and writing, and I feel as though that should be more regulated so that students are all being taught the same thing for the same

Here is a story of Aylmer, “a man of science,” who had a wife who was known for her beauty and her “hand-shaped birthmark.” Although perfect in the eyes of her admirers, her husband did not agree for the birthmark grew more and more intolerable for him in their lives together. As the days went on, Georgina became bothered by the way her husband would react towards her presence, towards the mark upon her cheek. She then agrees to allow Aylmer to remove her birthmark, even after reading his past experiment failures. This mistake brings his “peerless bride,” Georgiana, to her demise (Hawthorne 350).

Through Victor’s spelling test, Alexie portrays the teacher’s desire to fail Victor, illustrating the expectation held by the white American community that natives ought to fail. Additionally, the braids symbolize the Indian culture’s expectation of appearance, while the teacher’s desire to cut them off symbolizes the white culture’s expectation. The symbol recurs in his graduation, where Victor’s “cap doesn’t fit because [Victor has] grown [his]

Studies show that people who write in cursive have more active brains, than those who do not. In the future kids will need cursive to sign important documents. There is a good way to save class time and only teach what is necessary in cursive and schools should try this out. The plan is whenever they have to write their name at the top of a paper is to make them write it in cursive. Then when the teacher needs to write a response she should write it in cursive, that way the kids have to learn to read cursive.

As explained in the introduction, what characterizes Kushner’s writing, among other things, is his interest in the peculiar and crucial moments in one nation’s history. Therefore, here he chooses the USA of the 1980s as the setting for his highly political debate in which he questions Reagan’s national politics, especially his relation to the gay community of the period and contrasts it with the new wave of politics appearing on the far horizon, in Russia. The narrative focuses on the lives of two couples, the typist Louis Ironson and his AIDS-diagnosed lover Prior Walter, and the Mormon law clerk Joe Pitt and his Valium-addicted, agoraphobic wife Harper, who interact with the set of equally intriguing characters. Kushner goes to such lengths

Technology has transformed Writing Exceedingly Technology I will address my point of view or opinion on students using technology in the classroom. The author of this article is Wendy Leibowitz and the title is “How Technology transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing. The central idea of her essay is that college professors think technology is ruining students by not teaching them the benefits of pen and paper. In response to the article about how technology affects students negatively, I disagree with technology not helping students with essays and, I agree with technology connecting people all over the world to become better writers.

Anton Chekhov: Most authors will write stories using ideas that he or she have experienced in his or her life. This is true in the books by Anton Chekhov, he uses many things that happened in his life for the inspiration of his short stories. Many connections can be made between the life of Anton Chekhov and the short stories in the book Forty Stories. Not only did Chekhov write about his experiences in life he also included many aspects of Russian culture in his short stories.

In The Purloined Letter, a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, the theme of wisdom versus wit arises in the epigraph even before the story begins. The epigraph, translated as “Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than cleverness”, establishes the two rivalries between Dupin and Minister D- (old rivalry) and Dupin and Monsieur G- (race to solve the crime; Poe 249). In these contentions, wisdom and knowledge fights against wit and cleverness, and these battles fuel the fictional narrative with an intriguing plot until the crime is solved and Dupin wins both competitions. The beginning of the short story introduces Dupin and Monsieur G- and their differing methods of detection.