Analysis Of Baron's Article 'Should Everyone Be A Writer'

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In Baron’s article “Should Everyone Be a Writer”, he gives an explanation how writers have expanded and, writing itself has changed drastically over the last decade. Not only that but attempts to explain the history of writing technologies. He details the history of the printing press, pencil, typewriters and telegraph following it up with the computers we have today. I found this article to be interesting. I never would’ve known about how we take for granted things that people back then would criticize like for an example a telephone. Twelve years can totally make a difference on how things function today. I believe that Writing is a sort of expression for authors and a way of putting a word out. I believe that the older generation like

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