Writing in the 21st Century

Developing new models of writing, developing a new curriculum supporting those models, and creating models for teaching that curriculum. Choose to write in spite of cultures that have devalued writing, in spite of prohibitions against it when we were female or a person of color, in spite of the fact that we were told we should read but that we weren't ready to compose. Yancey's main argument is that we need to join the style of the 21st Century. Science and progressivism has cause reading to get more cultural respect than writing. Reading produces the feelings of whatever may be in the text. Writing produces feelings of frustration because of all the labor and editing of ideas that comes with it. Process writing is an approach that emphasizes working through various stages of the process; from brainstorming to the final product. Self sponsored writing is a writing that belongs to the writer, not an institution. People have the freedom and ability to write almost anything they want to. Literacy is constantly changing and growing and can be viewed in  many different ways with many different meanings. The so what of this article is that in today's world, the way we write has changed but that is not a bad thing. We are able to see more clearly what we have been missing.