Making New Writing :: Personal Narrative

do New Writing This assignment is for my Writing, Style, and Technology class at University. The sharpen of the class is supposed to be on computers, Internet, etc. But for our commencement ceremony major project, the goal was to create a new type of makeup technology. The catch was that we couldnt use coarse writing tools like composition or pencils. We had to use natural items and things we could find around the house like food, paper clips, dirt, etc. And the finished work was to be a news show or brief sentence using that new technology. The idea was to act as an writing inventor and get an understanding of the thoughts and processes that went into do some of the common writing technologies used today. M any(prenominal) of those evolved from using items in ways that werent originally intended. For example, the setoff computers were originally used for complex math calculations and not for word processing, until later adaptations against the desires of many early comput er operators who thought making garner as too simple (Baron 46). That was the idea for this assignment making linguistic communication with tools not normally used to write with and to temporarily get beyond the normal practices we grew up with to understand how people in the past tangle with the introduction of new writing practices. The first instruction that got stuck in my ear when the assignment was first presented was the one ab turn up not using any man- do things. Going outside in the cold/snow and remove up natural tools wasnt a pleasant idea. But history has shown that making new writing technologies often turns into a dirty process. In eighteenth century French, pencil-maker Nicholas-Jacques Conte had to deal with pencil graphite shortages by creating his own mixed bag of graphite and other material like clay and water (Baron 44). Replaying a task like that didnt sound very fun. But I credibly wasnt paying enough attention in class when the assignment was first talk ed about to realize that it wasnt that limiting. After carefully reading the instructions, it appeared that man made items *could* be used, but not ones that are extensions of common writing tools (paint, hear polish). That was a relieving realization. Going in nature was then ruled out for weather reasons, and the search for a new writing technology began at home. My room was filled with papers, pens, and other school stuff, so searching at that place wouldnt have done any good.