Week 14

To be a writer in the 21^st century means that you use your resources to their fullest that includes using the Internet to access works done by others. This access to others works also lends towards the fact that being a writer in the 21^st century means the use of collaboration in the creation of their works. This collaboration can be either on a direct working together on creating a final product or it could be using a document that was created by someone else to gather information needed to finish your writing. The documents used are also now sampled and quoted in the writings of 21^st century writers. The use of quote means that ideas directly from others are now used to support the ideas of the current writer.

            The emergence of digital technology does allow for new ways of composing writings. Technology allows for texts to be copied and quoted more easily as well as for different formats of the text to be created. Technology such as social media sites change the away that sentences are structured and how ideas are formed within a composition. The use of digital technology has made it easier for collaboration but at the same time the composing of documents can now be done on more advanced levels such as using font and formatting to change the way a text is received by the reader.