Writing can easily be influenced by communication on various levels. I could be sitting at my desk writing a paper for school and if my phone were to ring, sometimes whatever goes on with the conversation could help me with what else I will include within my writing. I do not need to go and look up information at the library because the technology we have, I can grab my laptop and search for exactly what I am looking for and within seconds there it is will a million responses to what I needed to know.
Text messaging, Facebook, and even tweeting gives people exact minute to minute updates of what people are doing and how they are feeling. With technology evolving as rapidly, people are now using blog sites as these digital journals. With communication being this easy and widespread some total stranger could be reading what one is feeling and may possibly relate in the same sense. Writing is everywhere and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon, it is linked to everything that we do and is surrounding us.
Both Ondaatje and Pagnucci have different ways of using genres, tones, and senses to shape their stories, also making it fairly difficult to figure out
Pagnucci shows a great deal of understanding his writings by using organization and by a lot of detail. I personally like reading a lot of details. It gives me a better understanding and also makes me feel like I am involved within the story I can picture what is going on in my mind without actually being there.
Ondaatje on the other hand uses headlines. I think these help with setting the tone and also giving a short few words of possibly what to expect to you will be reading next and it also helps with breaking down content so the reader is not bouncing back and forth with ideas. Ondaatje also uses a lot of poetry throughout this writing showing how different styles can be incorporated.
I think it depends on which type of technology we are talking about here as a distraction.I think Facebook on the computer while a teacher is trying to give instructions on a research paper is distracting but, I think the internet had an immense amount of great resources for students to use instead of searching through books.If a test is being given and someone’s cell phone goes off in the middle of the test, yes that is a great distraction but what if someone gets a flat tire and needs to call for help, they simply pick up their cell phone and calls to request help, to me that is not a distraction but it is simply how our technology has grown over years that it is such a convenience to pick up a phone and dial a number.
I feel that I was born before technology became so widespread but I have grown and adapted to how important technology is to us.I love the fact that technology has become so wide spread making it a lot easier to get things completed and find resources with a few clicks of the mouse.I sometimes still prefer talking on the phone over text messaging my friends.I think a card from the store is a lot more personal than someone saying Happy Birthday through a Facebook comment.There are some of the old-fashioned things that I still do but they seem to become more obsolete as the years pass.I can see our younger generations are so into technology it does not seem like they would be able to survive without their
videogames and their iPods.I have witnessed young kids totally glued to their televisions playing video games for hours on end.I was no that type growing up, I had books to read, or I was forced to go outside and play, not stay cooped up in the house all day.But this is the society that we have grown to accept, and I feel as if it will continue to progress more and more at a very rapid pace.
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