What is Writing in the 21st Century?
Alphabetic Text
“Alphabetic Text refers to the letters and words we use when we’re communicating in writing”—“Alphabetic text is just one resource we have for communicating our ideas: image, sound, video or animation, or music among many other modes.” The arrangement of these modes has a lot to do with the ethos of this website and its circulation and field, pulling most of the original key concepts together.
Within the 10 key concepts, some of them coincide as if they may not be able to exist wihtout eachother. An example of that is Alphabetic Text and Arrangement. The alphabetic text on its own is simply letters and words. With the help of arrangement, we can arrange the letters to form words and the words to form sentences and so on, in a way to create a specific message and give off an ethos as well.
Writing in the 21st century
Daily Alphabetic Text
Chart displaying Alphabetic Text to conceptualize and organize thoughts and ideas
Medical release forms using Alphabetic Text to diagnose and pass along diagnosis to other areas medically involved
Tattoos sometimes use Alphabetic Text to give off a specific message and ethos
Books such as Mad Libs allow you to use Alphabetic Text to enjoy a random, yet enjoyable puzzle of sorts
Scrabble is a game that uses Alphabetic Text for the rules and guidelines to follow along and create as many words as possible that fit into the puzzle, creating a fun experience for the players
These Looney Toon characters form the alphabet, a creative and fun way to visualize Alphabetic Text
Things such as workspace, environment, direction, drive, passion, etc. make up the 21st century and our writing skills among many others
Alphabetic text is used in our daily lives such as something as simple as a poster for a brand new movie. The poster advertisement for a new movie uses alphabetic text to give the alluring title, the release date, a synopse and possibly even quotes from critic's reviews.
