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How does composing change shape in digital spaces?

If by the composition changing when the window it's in changes, the composition doesn't really change. It stays the same, but the window size changes. If 'change shape in digital spaces' means something to the effect of the way things have been composed online over the past few years, then I can help answer that. Since the Internet and other online stuff has been created (i.e. AIM, MSN messenger, text messaging, etc.) most of the younger generations don't really know how to compose a well written thought. A lot of what they write is abbreviated now. For example, 'by the way' is now 'btw' and 'talk to you later' is 'ttyl'. Because most teenagers use these abbreviations, they have a hard time actually writing a paper for class. They can forget the differences between they're, there, and their, and other simple grammatical things we were taught in elementary school. I will admit that I do make those simple mistakes every now and then in a paper, and it's those stupid mistakes that bring the papers' grade down. May be if people these days would put the phone and computers away and actually try to write a letter to a friend or talk to someone in person, the writings of these people would be much better.


How can we better understand digital composing process?

We can better understand the digital composing process by creating a little dictionary for those of us who do not always understand what abbreviations stand for what. I still, to this day,have to ask my friends "What does that message say again? I don't understand it." Asking that same question over and over again can get old very fast. We can also try to do more assignments online then on paper. I'm not a big fan of this proposal, but it might work. I have noticed that most people tend to be able to express themselves more easily online instead of in class, or face to face with someone. We could also try to learn more about how websites or other online sites are created to get a better understanding of what goes on to put that opinion or idea on the Internet for people to see.