Writing in the 21st Century

In “Writing in the 21^st Century”, Yancey says, “We thus face three challenges that are also opportunities: developing new models of writing; designing a new curriculum supporting those models; and creating models for teaching that curriculum.” Yancey talks about how people wrote in spite of what different cultures that thought of writing as not important.  She gives the examples of how women or people of color were not allowed to write and how young children were not able to write until they were older.  Yancey’s main argument is to for students to become better writers and to become the next generation writers. Reading has become known as something that can be done with others.  It can be intimate.  Writing has become know as something that is not easy.  This is true in my life as well.  Sitting back and reading a good book is enjoyable, but writing is something I do not enjoy doing.  In the 21^st century we have a new era of literacy. Yancey says this new Age of Composition is, “a period where composers become composers not through direct and formal instruction alone (if at all), but rather through what we might call an extracurricular social co-apprenticeship.” This brings about the idea once again that in the 21^st century literacy is defined through technology.