Essay: Technology of Writing

1.Okay
2. Hard
3 Really freaking hard
4.Okay
5. Really hard
6. Impossible
7. Really easy
8. Really easy
9. No thanks
10. Easy
11. I don't get the joke, but easy
12. Hard

The purpose of this assignment was to analyze what punctuation, capitalization, and other writing elements are the most critical to my reading success. The first difficulty in reading arose whenever the words were written in ALL CAPS without spaces or punctuation. There was one joke written in this fashion that I actually made me surrender. I think the major factor in what made reading the ALL CAPS onslaught was that as a reader I was so used to reading one capital letter per sentence or so. I see lower case letters combined in long strings everyday, and so when the caps are combined it gets crazy.

I'll let you have a try: THISISRIDICULOUSHOWCANANYONEREADTHISIKNOWICOULDNTWHENEVERISTARTEDTHISASSIGNMENTIMSORRY THISWASMEANANDISHOULDNEVERHAVEWISHEDTHISTERRIBLEUPONTHELIKESOFYOU

This brings up my next point, which was the all lower case and punctuated properly, that all lower case is pretty easy to read, especially with normal spacing. I did notice, however, that when I read something in all lower case I read it with an inner voice much younger than mine currently. I have a couple of friends who only post in lower case whenever they are on Facebook because they save their capitalized writing for assignments and proper papers, not online (I'm sorry, friends, but it only makes me think you're a tad pretentious).

I thought it was amazing that the all lower case, bunched into clauses, but properly capitalized text was pretty easy to read. I did notice, however that I read the bunches of text like a stream of consciousness.

In conclusion, I found the parts of writing that most aided my reading were spacing and punctuation.