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What are the Advantages in Digital Writing Strategies Vs. By Hand

  • February 18, 2019
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  • Jared Brown
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With the wide range of functionalities, the majority of society today prefer the use of laptops and tablets in communication and learning. Digital custom essay writing, particularly, is easier and more manageable compared with the traditional note-taking. But what is digital writing? It is a form of writing, along with related processes such as revising and editing, that makes use of computer hardware and software. On the other hand, handwriting proponents believe that the benefits of using pen and paper are yet irreplaceable by those gadgets but believe that the next step we’ll use smartphones in education. Nevertheless, we will look into the advantages of digital writing strategies as we go along in this article.

You Can Develop Your Skills

While several studies show that handwriting remains superior in visual motor, thinking, and language processing skills development, digital writing strategies can also enhance the aforementioned skills in different ways. Meanwhile, typing and touch-screen interfaces are found to be favorable as writing strategies for kids with medium to severe disabilities. It helps them create, imagine and recall information (Karavanidou, 2017).

For visual motor skills, it was revealed that pointing and clicking through the use of digital devices, trigger the area of supramarginal gyrus (Brodmann area 40) of an adult’s brain in almost the same way as that of a drummer’s brain. Moreover, as a digital stylus mimics a pen, it can be utilized for handwriting and even on drawing and painting. Hence, eye-hand coordination is still exercised with digital writing,

On the other hand, digital technology assists students in capturing their lessons more effectively. There are several note-taking applications that can feature the addition of pictures, animations, audio recordings, and supplemental reading materials. These are perfect for visual, auditory and verbal learners in understanding various topics. Furthermore, digital writing strategies improve content and text structure especially among students writing in a second language (Dahlström and Boström, 2017). However, some research showed that handwriting outperforms digital writing in terms of memorization. As handwriting is slower than typing, students are challenged to immediately summarize the important points. Nevertheless, these outcomes do not apply to all. Some students find technology beneficial in organizing, drawing connections and synthesizing data (Holland, 2017).

You Can Use the Taught Basics Immediately

Digital technology pride in its multifunctionality, efficiency, and speed. Digital writing strategies for students, such as writing tutorial programs (eg. Essay Punch) can also lighten the teacher’s workload. As individual learners have different writing assistance needs, it would be hard for the teacher to meet all of them. These programs will aid the students on the whole process of writing, especially on resolving grammar, spelling and formatting problems. On the other hand, teachers can track the writing progress of their students.

Additionally, digital writing strategies facilitate sharing and access of files on various occasions. For instance, Google Docs, Slides, Spreadsheet among others allow simultaneous typing inputs hence group works are not as burdensome as before. Moreover, you can save and sync your files; thus, enabling you to open it as the need arises even on a different device.

Also, the note-taking app lets you browse and retrieve documents immediately, especially when reviewing for upcoming exams. Its search function saves your time from going over and deciphering through the piles of your handwritten notes.

You Can Enlarge Your Experience

A study by Dahlström and Boström (2017) disclosed that digital writing students were more interactive as compared to handwriting students who were silent workers. Likewise, other researchers observed motivational and social benefits in teaching writing with technology among student. With the use of keyboard and touch-type interface, learners are encouraged to be more creative, engaging and collaborative (Karavanidou, 2017). These findings are possible as digital writing strategies widen its capabilities by integrating numerous features that can cater to the needs of all students. On the other hand, there are novel note-taking strategies that harness digital technology that encourages critical thinking and student inquiry. (Holland, 2017)

In the same way, digital writing broadens your connection, particularly when you write blogs and post on social media platforms. You can communicate with your audience through their comments and feedback.

Furthermore, your ideas are not limited to a piece of paper with digital writing. Concept mapping applications (eg. Coggle and Padlet) provide an ever expanding working space where you can freely interconnect texts, pictures, videos and links (Holland, 2017).

You Can Use Your Soft Professional Skills

Soft professional skills are the non-technical abilities of a person that is related to an individual’s personality. Some of the soft professional skills that can be enriched with digital technology are communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Digital writing strategies can help you in making powerful presentations, reports and proposals with the incorporation of graphs, images, animations among others; thereby, enhancing both writing and creative skills. Also, several digital features can aid your listening, such as noise reductions and echo cancellations.

On the other hand, digital writing strategies allow you to be flexible, problem-solver. For instance, applications, such as Grammarly and Hemingway, will point out and edit your grammar lapses. In this way, you can correct your errors accordingly and avoid committing the same mistakes again.

Realize Yourself: It Is Up To You

Digital writing strategies can develop your skills and enlarge your experience. It can also provide immediate solutions and enrichment of soft professional skills. Digital writing strategies provide paperless alternative and yet require gadgets’ batteries to be charged. Indeed, digital writing and handwriting have their own sets of advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps, a combination of these methods can improve learning outcomes more. However, the choice is up to you.

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