Picture a World without Pens, Pencils, and Paper: The Unanticipated Future of Reading and Writing

Bromley, Karen. "Picture a World without Pens, Pencils, and Paper: The Unanticipated Future of Reading and Writing." Journal of College Reading and Learning 41.1 (2010): 97-108. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 9 Feb. 2011.

Bromely describes a contrast between the process of writing in the past and the present. She goes on to describe the impact current technology has had, and will have on writing in the future. She describes how some newspapers and articles have become entirely online already. She also details how many are embracing the use of computer generated news stories instead of those written by new staff members. She believes that teachers should not only make use of programs that detect plagiarism such as turnitin.com, but also embrace text speak as it is becoming a large part of the next generation's form of communication. It also discusses the benefits of shared information that is publicly edited such as Wikipedia, and the convenience of speech recognition. I like how she describes the somewhat sudden shift from physically to digitally written works as a natural inevitable progression.