Here's a submission for English 201, Non Fiction Writing.   A Wide Birth I found the article, “Technology and the College Generation” by Courtney Rubin, perplexing.   First, I find it odd that so many students have difficulty figuring out their class assignments simply because they are located via email.   Am I missing something here?   How is this a thing?   Maybe it’s because as a student at Boise State University, I have been well trained to check my student email for correspondence from my professors.   The article states that, “some of them didn’t even seem to know they had a college e-mail account”, and this from a junior level class.   Again, this seems perplexing to me. I certainly understand that students prefer social media, which is also the point of the article.   But the fact that many don’t seem to even know how to write a proper email seems bizarre.   Being older, I know that I have a different experience t...