Technology and Writing

Writing is a creative and informative way of expressing ideas and information. Technology is the process, invention, method of knowledge that deals with creation. Technology greatly impacts writers, through infantine amounts of styles and constraints. Technology is a great step forward in today’s world but, can also make a writer feel like it is a creativity step backward.

Technology can provide many outlets for an author to focus their style. Fonts, layouts, templates, styles, tables, illustrations, texts, themes backgrounds, and arrangements all can help an author to create the most interesting and creative essay they would every imagine. The many different possibilities of images and clip art can work with an essays purpose and help to argue its truth. Word pressers can also allow another to create a more professional looking essay. Also the amenities that technology can provide an essay can also help another create their perfect essay. Having access to the abundance of information on the internet and in books can provide so much knowledge that can be incorporated in to an essay. This can give an author more credible facts and interesting, entertaining information to include in an essay.

As writers determine their topic and purpose to as essay it is often times more difficult to portray their creativity and emotion through their writing by the constraints that a word processer can create. Technology can bring structure and formats to an essay that could limit a author to just to the black and white typical boring essay. Having an esthetically pleasing essay can take a large toll in the style of the essay. Also books, journals, and websites are all other sources that can be enhanced with technology. These technologies can influence writing with constraints I can limit the amount of creativity a writer has by enforcing the facts. Also this may reduce an author to quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing their way into insanity.

Essays that have many facts and figures and are on white paper with black text in Times New Roman font size 12 can be so dull and boring just by looking at them. Essays with colors or pictures, themes or backgrounds look so much more interesting and appealing to read. Technology and writing go hand in hand now in this new era. Technology can both help and hurt a writer in their creativity, style and information. The determining factor to these problems is the author’s view of what they are writing about or how they want it to be seen.