I read the Pew Internet and American Life project report again. The study was done in collaboration with the College Board’s National Commission on Writing. Some 700 “nationally representative children,” aged between 12 and 17 and their parents took the questionnaire. Here are the highlights
- Teens aged 12-17 who engage at least occasionally in some form of electronic personal communication (text messaging, email or instant messaging, posting comments in social networking sites): 85%
- Teens who do not think of these electronic texts as “writing”: 60%
- Teens who say that they sometimes use texting styles instead of proper capitalization and punctuation in their school assignments: 50%
- Parents of teens who feel that there is a slide in the quality of today compared to the writing 20 years ago: 83%
- Teens who believe that good writing is important to success in life: 86%
- Teens who say that their school work requires writing either “every day” or “several times a week”: 85%
- Teens who report that their typical school writing assignment is a paragraph to one page in length: 82%
- Teens who feel that additional in-class writing time would improve their writing abilities: 82%
- Teens who say that their internet-based writing of materials such as emails and instant messages has helped improve their overall writing: 15%
- Teens who say that this kind of writing makes no difference to their school writing: 73%
Absolutely telling! Our teens are fully aware texting doesn’t boost their language ability even if they’re practising it all day. A large number wants additional writing time in class – admission that they need improvement. And most know good writing is crucial to success; the best talkers into mobile or microphone need to master this art.
You can’t argue with this: writing comes with practice. Which should be supplemented by constant correction and analysis of what went wrong. Why don’t you check out if websites like this one have an answer?
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