Journal 10

Technology serves as the basis for advancement in writing and plays a vital role in the genre of everyday writing.  With the growth of modern technologies, everyday writing is becoming a more broad and well developed form of expression.  Technology and human advancements of communication truly acted at the catalyst for writing with a pen in general.  As Tayina stated, writing became possible with the carving of images on walls and eventually advanced to the use of paper and pen.  Today, digital technologies such as the internet, word processors, type writers, and the intent have allowed for writing to expand and grow even more.  This is an important aspect of everyday writing, for as we discussed in class a characteristic of everyday writing is that it is non-institutional and can be capable of effecting large communities expanded in different areas of the world.  The advancement of technology allows ordinary, 'everyday' people to create written or communicative texts and disperse their ideas all over the world throughout the internet and social media. 

Not only has technology affected spreading everyday writing to different communities although it has also enabled enhancement in more personal texts.  For example, the prating of picture to put in scrapbooks is made possible by digital technologies.  Tattoos are also a form of everyday writing which has developed and have become increasingly safer over the years.  Getting a tattoo today is much safer, cleaner, and accurately done then it used to be.  Technology has truly allowed for the advancement of communication, and with it the advancement of everyday texts.