Writing in the 21st Century

In the article Yancey is talking about how literacy used to be described as just reading and writing but today there are so many more aspects that the definition of literacy has taken on such as how we add digitally and through writing different ideas and different forms of information. Yancey describes three challenges that we face today: Developing new models of writing, designing a new curriculum supporting those models, and creating models for teach that curriculum. Writing has faced many challenges throughout history as Yancey describes how different cultures who devalued writing, the prohibition of female and colored people writing and the fact we were told to read when we were young instead of write. All these challenges we faced and overcame Yancey explains. The reason writing doesn’t get as much respect in history as does reading is because usually when something was written many people went off of it such as the bible and other works but when more and more people are writing its questioning the past and the history so many people in the past were accustomed to so they were against writing. Writing also required you to write which no one likes the physical part of writing. Yancey talks about how process writing was so influential to writing because it became the first main form of writing teachers and professors were teaching. Process Writing includes “invention, drafting, peer review, reflection, revising, and rewriting, then finally publishing the work. This process has influenced the curriculums in which they teach to write as I have been taught all of these steps in that exact order through my academic career. Self-Sponsored writing is a new form of writing in which people write for other people to see and is not necessarily a certain length but for the idea of writing to each other.