Paragraph 3: Questions 2. What does the author wish to convey in his comparison between netwriting with “scribblers’ compacts,” Mark Twain’s discovery of new journalism in San Francisco, Revolutionary War pamphleteers and the achievements of the Elizabethan era? And what does he find with his comparison?
A.
The author uses these examples to tell the readers that there are some differences between netwriting and those experimental, even innovative writing modes in history, and so netwriting could be regarded as a kind of renaissance. But he finds in this comparison that much of netwriting is awfully bad — sloppy, meandering, ungrammatical, poorly spelled, badly structured and even content free.
B.
The author uses these examples to tell the readers that there are some similarities between netwriting and those experimental, even innovative writing modes in history, and so netwriting could be regarded as a kind of renaissance. But he finds in this comparison that much of netwriting is awfully bad — sloppy, meandering, ungrammatical, poorly spelled, badly structured and even content free.