Technological Diversification of College Students

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Technological Diversification of College Students

Writing takes on many faces, from personal stories to make believe places. College writing however, has a completely different designation. Furthermore, computer intensive college writing looks further into the depths of writing, focusing on technology and the writers behind the computer screens. With the unbound horizons of technology, students are exposed to a vast amount of culture, much more than the traditional pen and paper courses. Computer intensive college writing courses teardown roadblocks, allowing students to become aware of surrounding cultures, therefore diversifying their minds while exposing them to the current technology.

Exposure to technology is key not only to succeed in a computer intensive college writing class, but also to succeed in the future. Technology has become more prevalent in today's society. From cell phones in purses, to email stations located all around college campuses. Technology is cropping up in business and industry; those without the skills to be able to interface with technology are pushed aside. As Kathy Camper wrote in her article "A Note from the Future," published in Wired magazine, "How do you think, see a system analysis job and I don't even no enough numbers to punch in and get inside the door" (Camper). This excerpt from Camper's article displays a prime example of a person who is shunned outside because lack of technological skills.

Computers are the gateway to diversity, opening the doors to worlds thousands of miles away. These gateways allow students to understand and respect opinions not originally of their own. Maxine Hairston, a professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas, holds views of how...

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...hink, to generate ideas, and to present themselves effectively to the university and the community" (Hairston). Not only will the ideas learned by the students help them succeed in other courses, but also it will carry on with them into the future. From advancements in technology to the idea of cultural acceptance, college writing class is the starting point of creating diversified thinking and problem solving.

Works Cited

Camper, Kathy. "A Note from the Future." Wired. January 1995. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/camper.if.html.

Calice, Corrine, Marshall Kitchens, and Richard Marback. "An Introduction to Reading, Thinking, and Writing in a Digital World." Writing Cultures in a Digital Age. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2001.

Hairston, Maxine. "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing." College Compostion and Communication. May 1992: 179-195.

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