Making New Writing :: Personal Narrative

Making New Writing This denomination is for my Writing, Style, and Technology class at University. The focus of the class is supposed to be on computers, Internet, etc. But for our first major project, the goal was to pull in a new type of report technology. The catch was that we couldnt use uncouth writing tools like paper or pencils. We had to use natural items and things we could take around the house like food, paper clips, dirt, etc. And the finished deform was to be a word or brief sentence employ that new technology. The idea was to act as an writing inventor and retrieve an ensureing of the thoughts and processes that went into making some of the common writing technologies use today. some(prenominal) of those evolved from using items in ways that werent originally intended. For example, the first computers were originally apply for complex math calculations and non for word processing, until later adaptations against the desires of m all earlyish computer oper ators who thought making letters as too mere(a) (Baron 46). That was the idea for this assignment making words 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 felt with the introduction of new writing practices. The first instruction that got stuck in my head when the assignment was first presented was the ace about not using any man-made things. Going extraneous in the cold/snow and digging up natural tools wasnt a pleasant idea. But history has shown that making new writing technologies ofttimes turns into a dirty process. In 18th century French, pencil-maker Nicholas-Jacques Conte had to deal with pencil graphite shortages by creating his own mixture of graphite and new(prenominal) material like clay and water (Baron 44). Replaying a task like that didnt fundamental very fun. But I probably wasnt paying enough care in class when the assignment was first talked about to realize that it wasnt that limiting. later on carefully reading the instructions, it appeared that man made items *could* be used, but not ones that are extensions of common writing tools (paint, nail 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 there wouldnt have done any good.