Writing takes place in many different forms and many different locations. A text message I compose varies extensively from a midterm paper I’d write. These differences lie within the diction that I use to talk to my audience, as well as the time spent ensuring the outcome looks correct. In a text, my writing is usually brief and rather informal. This form of writing usually occurs without much revision or preparations for a text message, but occurs more as a stream of consciousness when responding. My formal papers definitely occur with a lot more anticipation. There are multiple revisions and little to no slang terms in these writing.
As you can see the location of my academic writing takes place at a computer desk in my house. There I have music playing while I work, but only music without words. I have many tabs open about what I am doing. There is a lot of multi-tasking going on throughout the writing experience. In the video, you will see two main interruptions, my mom comes in to give me mail where I got a refund from UL; as well as I have to stop the video to get an access code to log in to a website. For the most part, it is a pretty focused writing experience. When texts are composed I can be anywheres, while talking to many other people and listening to more vocal music. There is no focus to a text comparatively to the academic writing.
When changing from writing a text on my MacBook compared to my iphone, there does tend to be a lot more emojis on the phone. There is usually more actual text substance on the MacBook, even for simple texts. Therefore the device I use impacts the writing style I use heavily.
Literature & the Internet 