Group's efforts putting emphasis on writing

URBANA – Just a generation ago, many folks in most professions seldom wrote a sentence after they graduated from high school.

How things have changed.

"Now it doesn't matter what you do, if you're a 21st-century person, you're on a keyboard," said Kent Williamson, executive director of the National Council of Teachers of English, based in Urbana.

To recognize and celebrate that, the council, along with 18 partners nationwide, established the National Day on Writing, which will fall on Oct. 20 every year.

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