Susan D. Blums And Marques Camp Summary

There are several claims made in Professor Susan D. Blum’s and Marques Camp’s article and essay respectively debating the use of technology and its effect on everyday reading and writing, as well as its influence on education. Both Blum and Camp present their arguments in a negative manner indicating their disapproval of the use of electronics in the school environment.

Blum’s article ‘The United States of (Non) Reading: the end of civilization or a New Era?’ displays the argument in an assertive manner that students are not reading enough to the extent that some students don’t view reading as an essential, mandatory deed, but view reading as no more than a mere suggestion, or a recommended activity. This is conveyed by Blum’s astonishment “Sometimes students don’t buy the textbooks” even though their Professors would consider that to be a mandatory requirement to their respective courses. While not purchasing textbooks can be due to other factors such as the personal inability to fund these textbooks, it still remains a necessity as reading would typically be a core activity of most assignments appointed by professors.
He chooses to more specifically express his concern that with the use of devices and features such as Kindles, EBooks and autocorrect can eventually lead to illiteracy as stated by the essay “for those who are the most vulnerable victims of the illiteracy threat, the $359 kinder offers little in the way of hope”. This indicates that if our reliance on the likes of Kindle and other e-readers were to persist, then what would prevent us from forgetting simple