Week#4 Questions for digital writing paper.

Questions for digital writing paper. According to the article:

 1. What are the problems struggling have in writing classes?

1.  The learners are often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas.

2.  The learners usually have poor handwriting and writes slowly or illegibly.

3. The learners have problems in expressing their idea through composition.

4. The learners sometimes have trouble communicating and understanding their teacher and peers during discussion in the classroom. 

 2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?

Digital writing refers to the ways that we use computers and technology as a tool to enhance our writing skills.   

 3. What are the three digital writing tools?

1.  Blogs

2.  Instant Messaging (IM) - MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, chat room

3.  Social Network Site (SNS)

 4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?

1.  Digital writing, especially Facebook, provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms which reduces learner’s anxiety to comments or share their ideas through Digital writing and enhances interlanguage communication.

2.  Digital writing provide real-time communication. They can type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers. Moreover, the learners can monitor their language massages as they produce them. It's provide an opportunity to ponder and recheck their idea before transmitting their response.  

 5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?

1.  Shorthand and emoticons may yield negative impact to many teen users.

2. English teacher are worried that these easy-to-use symbolic abbreviations will likely deconstruct verifiable grammatical rules.

6. Which activity you like most? Why?

I like Blogs the most because Blogs provide opportunities, inspirations, and motivations for personal writing and promote authorship.