Writing in the 21^st century: A report from the National Council of Teachers of English

This article talks about the importance of understanding technology and urges teachers to use it to its full potential. It calls for people to complete three challenges: develop new models of writing, design a new curriculum to support those models, and create models for teaching that curriculum. This article encourages people to view knowledge as a treasure and a gift. It discusses the history of reading and writing. Reading was always associated with something warm and fuzzy like a church or family life, while writing, on the other hand, was always put into a negative light.Later, the article talks about how in the 21^st century writers are everywhere. Text seems to cover every surface. They cover bulletins and they can be found all throughout social media. This is called the Age of Composition. This is a period where composers not through direct and formal instruction alone, but rather through what we might call an extracurricular social co-apprenticeship.