| A pen, derived from the Latin word pinna meaning | | | | assessment and reviews of those schemes in the |
| feather, is a tapered, slim and circular apparatus | | | | target subjects. Much singing praise has been lauded |
| utilized for the application of ink on writing surfaces | | | | for the computer, so why are we still using plastic |
| such as paper. There are many types of pens | | | | pens as writing instruments? Why do we still keep |
| available in the market today, such as the | | | | notebooks (actual ones comprising a cover and blank |
| very-famous ballpoint pen which gives out sticky | | | | paper) in our bags? Why is the plastic pen still an |
| oil-based ink by the motion of an undulating small hard | | | | essential item for many of us? The answers may be |
| sphere, a roller ball pen which allots a water-based | | | | quite abstract, as in that they differ from one |
| liquid or gel ink through a round tip very much like a | | | | individual to another. But the most common and |
| ballpoint pen, and the eponymous fountain pen, which | | | | acceptable ones may be that writing using plastic |
| utilizes a nib to deliver ink which is water based. As | | | | pens on paper requires full concentration, and there |
| the world evolves, technology has advanced to such | | | | can be no distraction. By comparison, a computer has |
| astonishing levels that we are constantly in awe of | | | | many distractions; the moment you are bored, you'd |
| so much progress made in such a short span of time. | | | | switch to a new window and hours would go by |
| Once upon a time, the pen is considered the only | | | | before realizing that the initial work to be done has |
| writing instrument we will ever need, but then came | | | | been ignored. Pen and paper would never let that |
| the invention of the mighty computer, with its many | | | | happen, as it's a process which has a beginning to an |
| facets to make writing an absolute breeze. To be | | | | end, with no stopping in between. What if you have |
| fair, working and writing on a computer can assist | | | | a sudden epiphany and had to write it down |
| many people to get their work done in a jiffy as | | | | immediately - would you not reach into your bag, fish |
| compared to writing with plastic pens. An educator | | | | for a plastic pen, a scrap of paper and begin furiously |
| would always encourage his students, and attempt | | | | writing your thoughts down? By the time you access |
| to arouse an interest in writing with the help of a | | | | your lap top, those thoughts would have become like |
| computer. It is much simpler to hit keys on a | | | | dust in the wind. Even with the advent of computer |
| keyboard than it is to grasp a plastic pen and write | | | | technology, many certified secretaries working for |
| on a piece of visible paper. Compared with | | | | large Companies still prefer to take shorthand utilizing |
| conventional pen and paper, many of us would have | | | | a note pad and a plastic pen. There is an inexplicably |
| a preference to transmit our words and thoughts on | | | | intangible quality about writing with the hand using an |
| 'magic paper' i.e. a keyboard. To sum it up, working | | | | actual pen, something that makes it infinitely |
| on computers can allay bodily, mental and one's | | | | invaluable; especially when the muse visits at odd |
| thought process limitations to a certain scale. As a | | | | hours of the morning. Pens, whether plastic ones or |
| direct consequence, writing becomes more enjoyable, | | | | metal, will be permanent facets in our lives; all the |
| thrilling and simpler, and no longer considered a | | | | true literary classics were written using a pen of |
| reprimand. Using a computer may also inspire | | | | some sort, and just cannot be compared to the |
| creativity, investigation of schemes and the | | | | modern computer. |