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Internet writing is different and important
Skills: noneIT concepts: Importance of Internet writing, types of Internet writing, extent of Internet writing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation (text)
“Probably the most important thing, and probably one of the surprises, is you have to work with people who are good writers.”
“Everybody has to be a good writer.” Jason Fried
When hiring, Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals, a leading Internet software company looks for good writers:
Jason Fried
(34 sec)
Joel Spolsky says writing is important
The co-founder of Fog Creek, a leading Internet software company:
Being able to write clearly, write English clearly is more important to developing useful software, I think, than almost anything else. The full podcast, 2009.
(15 sec)
•83% of parents of teens feel there is a greater need to write well today than there was 20 years ago.
•94% of black parents say that good writing skills are more important now than in the past, compared with 82% of white parents and 79% of English-speaking Hispanic parents.
•86% of teens believe good writing is important to success in life
•75% of young people said they write regularly -- online and off.•56% of young people said they had a profile on a social
networking site, such as Bebo or Facebook. 24% said that they have their own blog.
•Young people who write on a blog were more likely than young people who do not write on a blog to enjoy writing in general (57% vs. 40%) and to enjoy writing for family/friends in particular (79% vs. 55%).
•Young people with a blog (61%) as well as young people with a profile on a social networking site (56%) also displayed greater confidence, believing themselves to be good writers.
Children write regularly, enjoy writing and are confident
Survey of UK children ages 9-16, more information
US Undergrad writing
More information
How many hours per week do you spend online?
•44.8% post videos on the Web•41.9% post on wikis•37.3% contribute to blogs
•Students are writing more than ever•Some of their “life writing” is profound•Their writing is done to achieve some purpose or goal
Undergrads write more and better
Stanford five year study on undergraduate writing, more information
•I spend 3 1/2 hours a day online.•I will write 42 pages for class this semester ... and over 500 pages of email•I will read 8 books this year ... 2,300 Web pages and 1,281 FaceBook profiles.•I buy $100 textbooks that I never open.