ARTICLE: Writing for New Forms

[Ryan Goble]

From Wired's University of the Future feature...

COMPOSITION

Writing for New Forms

Why take this course? 
You can write a cogent essay, but can you write it in 140 characters or less?

What you’ll learn: 
How to adapt your message to multiple formats and audiences—human and machine.

 

Writing used to mean arranging words in a particular order to be printed with ink on the cellulosic entrails of a tree. You wrote for people, and you hoped that the marks you made would leave a permanent impression upon the world. Today, writing can refer to anything from posting a one-line status update on Facebook to dashing off a 10,000-word blog entry. Your readers include not just humans but algorithms, and your goal is not immortality but a momentary piercing of the ever-shifting zeitgeist.

Read the full article HERE.