Revised Exam Esaay

In the passage above from “From tripod to Cosmos: A new metaphor for the language arts” written by Baines, it tells us the way how contemporary teachers train their students’ writing skills has been changed over the past 25 years. Instead of simply being asked to write some prescriptive, short, and academic responses, students need to try various forms of writing for different purposes as well as for different viewers. By doing this, students can understand how to write for real audiences rather than only for their own teachers. On the other hand, one of the main reasons why the way how teachers teach composition has been changed is the popularity of computer among people. For instance, almost every newly constructed school building has individual areas in which students can conveniently write, edit, and publish their work. In addition, they can also do that in their classrooms. As a matter of fact, students of language arts departments use this kind of facility most frequently to make themselves to be more accustomed to the main stream of today and the future’s writhing method. In effect, the writing method is also for a promisingly lucrative writing career, which is to write for nonprint media. Teachers of language arts departments are forced to be familiar with various software programs, word process programs in particular. Why? Because they need to guide students in computer use and provide environments for them to engage themselves in writing for media such as film, television, Internet, and CD-ROM because the relation between them would be very important in the future.
To be no surprise, the situation described in the passage can also be found in our English apartment. We can see ubiquitous computers no matter where we go in our university, and we, as students of English department, do have various opportunities to use computers to accomplish our assignments or work. I think it is really important for us to get used to this technology and take good advantage of it. As it is mentioned in the passage, writing for nonprint media is really where the industry of writing is heading towards to and where we really need to engage ourselves in. We need to try to write in different kinds of forms and need to know what kinds of people are out there reading what we write. In addition, we need to know how to write in a proper form to fit our purpose appropriately. In conclusion, I am pretty identified with this passage and think that it contains many true examples of the reality, which is good for the audience to know what is really happening nowadays.