The evolution of digital writing has grown within these past years. The rise of the internet, social media, mobile devices, and digital platforms have transformed how we create, consume and share content. In the reading “Writing for The Web: Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites” by J.D.Applen we explore how writing has evolved to digital. It was emphasized that writing is no longer a linear activity, it’s become a dynamic and interactive process.
Tradition print such as a novel tends to to not have any interaction whatsoever. There’s no image, color and revision. It’s a strict order of lines going from left to right. Whereas technology anything we take in through the screen any reader can change and manipulate it. Manipulate how? Well, a text on a screen is more changeable, we can question and interact with it. Which leads me to digital writers. Writers who write printed novels have to also consider how their digital text will effectively engage their audience. Such as design, hyperlinks, and even the user experience.
personal connection
A personal experience I can share that can connect to this reading was my freshman year in college. Before college, every essay I wrote followed the same format, 12 point Times New Roman. It was doubled spaced and had no extra elements. It was all about the words on the page, nothing else. While working on the paper in class, a classmate introduced me to the concept of hyperlinks. Instead of dedicating an entire section to explain background information and a list of sources, I could simply embed a link within my text. And like a cartoon character a lightbulb at the top of my head went off.
It felt like a whole new world of writing had opened up to me. It gave readers who were reading my essay the option to engage more deeply if they wanted to. Which connects to the whole idea of how digital text is much more interactive than a traditional print.
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