gladsdotter/writing

Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), responds to questions about how changes in writing implements and technologies affect how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another.

I found this interesting, and encouraging: "Are students using the acronyms and emoticons we associate with txting in their academic work? No. In fact, they're not even using them in their texts and IMs. By the time they get to college, most students--certainly the English majors--have put away such childish things, and many of them had already abandoned such signs of middle-school immaturity in high school. It's kid stuff, plain and simple, and they're mightily embarrassed when their parents send them texts beginning `wassup?' and signed `luv u.'"