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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Blogging may make teens better writers - JEAN NASH JOHNSON, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Someone in the academic world finally said it. Blogging, e-mailing and instant messaging among teens pay off. Despite punctuation lapses, grammar shortcuts and creative spelling, online communication invites critical thinking and better writing, says Purdue University English professor Samantha Blackmon. "Who cares if a student, to save time, types 'u' for 'you?' I want to see them writing more and if that means breaking a few rules, that's OK." Students now come to college with years of online writing experience, putting them ahead of the game for research papers, says Blackmon, who studies computers and writing as well as minority rhetoric.
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