This was an eighth-grade student’s response to a question I posed in a reading response assignment tied to the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s ...
Joe Miller is Vice President of Learning Design at BenchPrep, which offers a cloud-based learning platform for professional training and credentialing organizations. He asserts that, far from ...
The days of traditional college writing instruction are nearly over, contends a Michigan State University researcher who found that college students now rank texting as the No. 1 form of writing and ...
What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha — born starting in 2010 — many of them may be hard-pressed to answer. Members of ...
Teachers and parents alike have voiced concern over whether texting, with its abbreviations, short-cuts, and odd grammar, hurts kids' writing skills. There has been little definitive research on the ...
English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...
What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha -- born starting in 2010 -- many of them may be hard-pressed to answer. Members of ...
What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha — born starting in 2010 — many of them may be hard-pressed to answer. Members of ...
This lack of detail and nuance common to texting inevitably leads to confused writing. Texting undercuts compositional thought In understanding how exposure to texting is undercutting students’ ...