What do you think the future of academic composing will look like? Will academic composing remain restricted to print, or will it move to online, digital spaces? Do you think digital composing via blogs, websites, videos, podcasts, etc. is as valued in academia as printed, MLA or APA formatted essays? Why or why not?
The future of academic composing will probably move to digital spaces for a lot of different reasons. some of there reasons are the fact that first and foremost it is where everything is slowly moving towards is it would make sense for academic papers to slowly do the same thing as everything else. Also, it is more convenient for academic papers to be posted online where more people can have access to them thus fulfilling their purpose of people learning from them. I think academic papers should stay in MLA or APA format because if not it is stealing from the authors who you took your work from.
ReplyDeleteI think the future of academic composing will move more towards being strictly online. Why waste paper when pretty much everyone in a modernized country has some form of access to a computer? However, I don’t think blogs, websites, videos, podcasts, etc. are valued and will never be valued the same as MLA or APA formatted papers. They never will be valued the same if the education system remained as standardized as it is today. The system, honestly, allows for very little creative freedom. The future of academic composing will be reading the same standardized, formatted essays except on a screen instead of paper.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the future of academic composing will most definitely move to strictly online and digital spaces. Although a lot of people like to use paper more, there's no point in waisting paper when we have so many opportunities through the use of computers and other electronic devices. With the use of computers we have the ability to remediate our particular pieces and edit them in a way to make them excellent works of writing. Blogs, websites, videos, podcasts, etc. are all very important but I don't believe them to hold the same status as MLA, APA, etc. format papers. With this said though, I still believe that the writings we make on the blogs and other websites are important as well. On these websites, we're able to write freely and it's something that we want to do, rather than have to do.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the future of academic composing will not remain restricted to print. This is because when a work is moved to online spaces such as a blog or website, it allows ideas to be spread more easily. It also allows for quick responses and discussion on the topics. These composed pieces should still hold the same value as essays that are formatted in MLA or APA because they still get the same ideas across. Just because something is not written in a specific format does not automatically make it any less credible or valuable of an opinion or idea. Another advantage of online composing is the ability to use creativity to express a concept. This is beneficial because it grants someone who might not be great with writing papers to articulate his or her ideas.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the future of academic composing will move to almost all completely online. Although a lot of people would rather have an actual book to look at, it makes more sense to keep everything online. Printing copies of textbooks makes it so it cannot be frequently updated, and in order to update information, new textbooks must be printed and that will waste paper. Online allow people to constantly update new information. I think blogs, websites, videos, and podcasts are valued, but not as much as MLA or APA formatted essays. They are both different forms, but APA and MLA stick to a standard that people have to follow, which doesn’t allow for as much creative freedom as digital composing does.
ReplyDeleteThe future of academic composing is definitely moving towards a more computer based interfaces, such as on the internet and computers. In this day and age, technology is already being used in many classrooms across the country, this trend will only keep growing. However, I don't believe digital learning sources aren't on the same level as printed sources of academia, like MLA or APA formatted essays, just yet. This will take only a couple of years, since most of our generation already turns toward the internet for help in their academics.
ReplyDeleteI think the future of academic composing lies within digital spaces. Everything is slowly moving to fully rely on technology. Grocery lists and address books are now on our phones and letters are sent through our emails. I believe students will start typing essay tests and notes on laptops and tablets and their textbooks will be digital as well. I think MLA and APA formatted essays and papers are more valued in academia than blogs and websites, but not because they are in print while the others are online. Blogs and videos are typically more casual and social than these essays and that is why they are valued more. If I found a correctly formatted essay online, I would value it just as much as if it were printed out and in my hands.
ReplyDeleteI think that the future of academic composing will move to online digital spaces. Everything in our classrooms has slowly changed from the standard paper and pencil to computers and keyboards. The way we are taught and the way we do everything in school has slowly been changing with technology since I was a little kid and I think this will continue. I think that most people still like having an actual pen and paper and people don't see things like blogs and such as being on the same level as an MLA formatted paper but I think with the new upcoming generations who are all about technology that this will change as well.
ReplyDeleteI think academic composing will continuously become more and more digital as time moves on and technology develops. I mean just take our classroom for example, there is a computer in that room for every single student. If you were to go into a school 20 years ago there might have been 3 computers in the entire school. There are certain private schools in America that are making it required that your child brings a laptop to school every day. I believe as technology becomes more advanced and useful that it will cause us to use them more in a classroom setting. It makes sense to use computers though instead of wasting all of those trees on paper and pencils.
ReplyDeleteI believe academic composing will continually catch up to the digital age america has experienced. The use of videos web blogging and the use of the internet will become dominant over the Mla formatting of current papers, because it is easier to convey a topic in a much more interesting way. I much rather watch a documentary or read a blog on a certain topic then read a MLA print copy of something I need to familiarize my self with. It is much more intrguing to research things online then through documents and much more effective. But i dont believe in academic standings that a video is as valued as a print document. The older generations of American Society run the culture, they are used o print documents MlA formats and strict guideline, making them much more use to thinking a print document is more valuable. But as our generation grows up internet will become more valued.
ReplyDeleteAcademic composing is becoming more digital every year. Schools are posting the majority of their assignments online because it is readily available to the students. With this in mind, it is not necessarily a good thing. With more academic work being done online, it allows for concerns such as slacking and plagiarism. When students have the opportunity of their work being online, they usually procrastinate more than they would before or not even do it at all. Also, when everything becomes available online, people can take the easy way out and simply copy and paste someone's work. Adding onto that, when students attend class, most of them have their laptops open and aren't paying attention anyway so the distraction of everyday technology is constantly interfering with our academic studies.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, I do not think that in the future academic composing will become all digital. For example, for each of our paper, we submit one online as well as one in class. The one we submit in class is returned with comments from our professor. The comment are written in her handwriting, at least like that we have reassurance that she is actually reading them and providing feed back. If they are online, anyone can be grading them, much more not even reading through them. The doubt works both ways. When everything is online, its much easier to copy and paste and replicate something that isn't yours. That is why I believe that academic composing will not become all digital. The university stresses plagiarism enough as it is. I doubt they would allow an easier access to it.
ReplyDeleteAcademic composing and going to easily change within the next 10 years if it already hasn't started to now. The age of technology is upon us and it shows now as I am typing this blog for my English class, this would have never been a thing 10 years ago but now it is even more obvious that academics is moving to the computer as elementary schools are now starting to teach little kids how to use these computers because these computers are used in everyday life after middle school. I do most of my school work now in college on my computer and even turn in my math homework which is known to be mostly on paper is now even online.
ReplyDeleteAcademic composing in the future will definitely change to become more digital. It is much more convenient to have everything on one screen rather than carrying multiple books around. I do think that we should keep MLA formatting because people could easily plagiarize if we did not have it. I also think that blogs or videos just don't compare to MLA and APA formatting when it comes to a classroom setting because anyone can get in front of a screen and start talking but it is much harder to write a paper with the correct format.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the future of academic composing will be mostly, if not all based on online or digital spaces. I believe this will occur due to the many benefits that digital composing has on those using the academic sources, but on the world as a whole. One of the many benefits that the online spaces provide that make it more convenient than the paper alternative is that it provides more information than any library in the world. The internet is full of easy-to-access information that would be far more limited in any library. Also, the internet gives users the ability to share their academic work and research to the world very easily through the creation of websites, blogs, online academic journals, ect. Anybody can share their research with someone on the other side of the world in a very easy process which is not available through paper sources. As well as being more convenient for the user, the digital space does not use paper which saves the worlds trees and benefits the world as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that academic composing will move onto being only online in a blog of some sort, and not printed at all. Many teachers that have 200+ people lecture classes are tired of lugging those 8-page essays all the way from the classroom to their office to file through and grade. It is much easier and environmentally friendly to post an essay online and the teacher or TA is able to make comments on it or even have a touchable computer that allows for handwritten comments and grades. I do think that digital forms of essays and the like are still valued as MLA format. You have it written there on your paper and your sources are all there as well as a bibliography, how can't it be MLA? Being in digital and being in print should not matter as long as the essay is formatted correctly.
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ReplyDeleteAcademic composing has already evolved so much over the years. We have com from compositions that are only handwritten, to some being printed, to all being printed, and now to some being digital, and in the future, all academic composing will be expected to be digital as well. The accessibility that the internet provides gives more access to students inside and outside of class. The internet also provides new ideas and ways to approach ideas and beliefs in a new way and prospective. MLA or APA formatted essays, in a way, seem more formal. It is still writing and creative even if it is in a blog or website but I think having an essay properly formatted gives it a sense of formality.
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