Addison and Steele have made great lengths in changing the way journalism is done. Writing papers, whether in a newspaper or magazine, have had changes and have stayed the same in some ways. Newspapers looked pretty different back in the day. The first page is often the same and so are the columns they wrote in, but the subjects they wrote are different. Our newspapers not only have news, but also deaths and new things that pop in the world today. Magazines were also quite different than ours. They were mostly aimed toward men. Women didn't read much, so most magazines were male based. It taught about how to be a proper man and things like that. Magazines today are aimed toward all kinds of people. There are specific magazines for men, women, and children. Everyone has access to them. The writing has also changed since the 18th century. We incorporate a lot of new language and art into our writing. The style of writing has changed significantly. Writing a public writing feels much different than something you put in a D2L dropbox. Public writing feels as though it needs to be neater and more sophisticated, whereas a D2L dropbox paper feels more informal.
The anonymous lady is a well-known writer, but her she is not well published. Her real name is Martha Fowke Sansom. She wrote mostly love poems, yet she also wrote about her own writing. In "On Being Charged with Writing Incorrectly", she writes about how she doesn't write like scholarly educated men. She says that other "wiser" people's writing is dull and boring. All the sophistication in the world can't make their writing very interesting. This is supported with line 14 "These mighty dull, these mighty wise" and is repeated at the end. She explains that she doesn't write like the well-known instructor Busby. That she writes incorrectly because the one man that is determining how everyone is supposed to write says she's doing it wrong. This I believe to be significant because women at this time didn't get a say in anything. Women were also not as educated as men, so how would she know the proper way to write something? I feel as though this helps lead the way for other women to write and become more educated.
