"The Written Word"

There are a few main points in “The Written Word: From Printing to the Internet” that are important to remember. The article begins by telling us how communication is intimate with face to face between a number of people. Communication has a long history, the article describes each type of written communication that has developed over time: papyrus, newspapers, and magazines. The chapter also goes into detail about how written communication has expanded since people have become accustomed to email and the Internet. Another important point that is made in the chapter is how much skill and thought goes into what written communication is today because of the differences in how much effort was probably put into words in the past. The number of people able to communicate through written word has increased since the cost of communicating become so low. The chapter really emphasizes how technology has affected written communication.