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‘It’s a Great Time to be in Publishing” Looks at this from a whole new different perspective. Instead of technology reducing the reading rate, it’s rather going up. According to the passage, “People read more now than ever, and they write more too”. This shows how he feels. To him. There is no problem. People write more because they have more things to read and research about. If more people are reading then that means that there will be more authors publishing. To the author, technology has been a great help to the future of publishing, it doesn't matter if people are doing it on their phone, computer, they are still reading and if, they are then they are improving their minds. However, tech isn’t improving everything, print publishing is still having troubles, it’s just printing the words and putting on paper. “Everytime i talk tp print publishing folks, they tell me how awful it is, that words and text move around the web so easily”. Technology has become a contributing factor to the future of …show more content…

According to ‘The light at the end of the publishing tunnel’, it says, “the responsibility of raising of the children who value education, hence, read, in any form is no longer a priority”. This shows how the author describes the situation, he very solely describes the fact that technology is hurting the world, and the progress of reading. But ‘it’s a great time to be in publishing says, “Book publishing are rapidly embracing digital printing technologies over costly, dated offset methods, to make copies of their backlist available on demand…. No w books can be ordered one at a time”. This shows how technology has improved the world. It has made books that were very hard to find very simple. All you do is goo to google and type in the book and then bam that book is there and you just decide to read it online or order it. Nothing more nothing

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The direction that he is aiming for is the exact one that he is using to build his argument. He wants his audience to agree that the decline in reading will indeed have a negative effect on society. Dana Gioia even went in debt and stated, “ The decline of reading is also taking its toll in the civic sphere.” (P.7 Dana Gioia) He based this statement on a 2003 study about civic knowledge.

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It’s also is relevant to the overall argument as it provides a reason why traditionalists don’t use the internet. During the time the book was published, in 2007 Steve Jobs launched his creation of phones, apple launched their first generation of iPad in 2010, windows recently launched their windows 8 recently in 2012, and other technology were invented during the time. This promote the use of technology in our daily writing. This evidence that Thompson provided doesn’t persuade his audience because it doesn’t support the argument that he wants his readers to take away. Bloggers and technology users would argue otherwise that technology helps writers connect with their audience, makes writing faster, and help generate creativity in writing.

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In the passage the author Dana Gioia argues and states that the literacy rate here in the United States is dropping very fast. The author claims that “the interest young Americans showed in the arts and especially literature actually diminished. Gioia is stating that many young Americans throughout the United States are not reading and that is making the literacy rate to decrease. Making our literature status go down. Gioia gives us examples of this by stating some facts and looking back at a survey.

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He continues by explaining how the media and the internet have become the main sources for information because of how easily someone can find the information they want, but at the same time, it is affecting many peoples’ ability to concentrate when reading longer books. He further proves this by mentioning how even some experts in literature have changed because of technology. Those experts have explained that they usually end up skimming more than reading thoroughly when it comes to longer pieces of writing. Studies were also mentioned about how people jump from different websites and links and usually have a harder time when focusing on one piece of writing because of this. He ends that point by considering

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