How Technology Shapes the Way We Write.

Technology is helpful in making seemingly insurmountable tasks more manageable. However, it functions in another way. Technology dictates how you approach a given task as a student. For some students, using technology is the difference between doing something the "easy" way or the hard "way." For others, technology is an outlet for them to access information that wouldn't normally be available. The way in which technology most affects me as a writer is that I am able to affectively join in on scholarly discourse that is ongoing and current about a given topic. This makes my papers and arguments more sound. For example, the MLA bibliography, and many other online databases, allows me to narrow my search based on how recent the article, book, or dissertation abstract was published. However, as I mentioned in my previous blog I tend to look at those resources (because of the abundance and accessibility) as the only information available.