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We are in a new "Age of Composition" I feel we have to learn from the past in order to better our future. That we need to adapt with technology, utilizing the knowledge and skills we have. There's a need to look at the negative aspects of the internet and how we are we going to make it a positive while promoting this "new way" of composition.

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"As a practical matter, however, especially in the case of writing, what immediately happened was that writing became a phenomenon to be measured, and it began with the most
rudimentary aspect of writing, the labor that produced it:
handwriting, which was assessed by quantitative handwriting scales."
RESPONSE: This view carries into academic grading now in schools. I feel it is counterproductive. I will explain further supporting outside text for my perspective.

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"There is a call to action, a call to re-
search and articulate new composition, a call to help our students com-
pose often, compose well, and through these composing, become the
citizen writers of our country, the citizen writers of our world, and the
writers of our future."
"It’s time for us to join the future and
support all forms of 21st century litera-
cies, inside school and outside school"
RESPONSE: compare "Breaking Boundaries" text to support this idea. Use authors direct quote of Yancys text.

In the early part of the century, much instruction in writing was no more than instruction in penmanship. Much as in the case of grammar today—when grammar is identified as writing
(Yancey)—writing itself in the early twentieth century had
little if any status or identity apart from handwriting.
RESPONSE: Relate my personal experience with past teachers looking at my grammar and penmanship more then what I was writing.

"People alike—want to compose and do—on the page and
on the screen and on the network—to each other. Opportunities for Writing—on MySpace and Facebook
and Google docs and multiple blogs and platforms—and
on national media sites, where writers upload photos and
descriptions, videos and personal accounts, where they are
both recipients and creators of our news"
RESPONSE: We must take advantage of this writing. Reflect on current popular networks today.

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A call for change in the 21st century classroom. The way people experience and produce writing has changed now. At the end of the text Yancy states "With this change, teachers are faced with three opportunities": #1) “develop new models of writing", #2)"designing a new curriculum that supports those models; and #3) "creating models for teaching that curriculum”. Yancey then goes on to discuss writing attitudes and practices in the 20th century to later juxtapose against 21st century writing attitudes and practices. Then, she discusses ways in which reading has been viewed before, as more enjoyable and important than writing. Lastly, she discusses the many things that influenced 20th century writing including the science, progress, and process of writing. For example how writing has been always attached to student testing since the late 1800s, and the counter productiveness of it.