Writing Through Mediums

It's interesting to compare the difference in writing styles when using a variety of mediums. For example, when we, the college students, are told to write a paper, we immediately think to use Microsoft Word and question how long the paper should be. We immediately know that we need to write in paragraph form, with multiple sentences per paragraph that relate to the topic sentence, and that the paper needs to be professionally written and appear scholarly. Let's compare that to this writing now. This style is more free form. If I chose to not use capital letters, it could be acceptable, as blogging is considered less of a formal way of conveying messages and ideas.

Then there is a comparison to that of less formal writing styles. An example commonly used today is PowerPoint. People are encouraged to use short phrases that make a point. It is usually assumed that following the creation of a PowerPoint, that people will be able to present with it and elaborate on the points increasing clarity. And finally, probably the least formal would be the sites widely used for social networking - especially Facebook and Twitter. These mediums are so relaxed and so specific to simplicity, especially in Twitter's case, in which writing is limited to 140 characters.

These writing styles have just become acceptable - but it poses a question, what if a Paper was written as if it was a PowerPoint slide - what would the response be?