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Have you noticed a lack of formal grammar or punctuation in your kids’ homework? How about in correspondence with friends?
Informal communications and writing styles adopted in text messages, email, and new social media tools like blogs have begun to creep into the world of print.
A new study by Pew Internet reveals that nearly two-thirds of surveyed students (700) say their Web communications style sometimes bleeds into school assignments.
Roughly 50% admit to omitting proper punctuation and capitalization, and, shockingly, a quarter of them admit to using emoticons such as smiley faces.
“The state of writing among teens today is marked by an interesting paradox: While teens are heavily embedded in a tech-rich world and craft a significant amount of electronic text, they see a fundamental distinction between their electronic social communications and the more formal writing they do for school or for personal reasons,” says the reports authors.
I’ve been saying for about 8 years that the Internet would spawn a writing revolution. I must admit however that I didn’t forsee a possible re-writing of our English language :) LOL! IMO!
I can state with unequivocal confidence that students aren’t the only culprits. Business people are also guilty; and even journalists (readily apparent on their own personal blogs, with the occasional creep into individual opinion / editorial columns). OMG!
Of course, I’m too am guilty, but only in the blogosphere where it is understood, if not expected and encouraged (people want conversational writing). But there is no excuse for lazy writing, short-hand communication and ‘texting’ in formal school work, business documents, and journalism :( TMYFI.
There is however a silver lining: 60% of teens do not think of these electronic texts as "writing." TGIF.
Among the study’s other findings:
• 85% of youth ages 12-17 engage at least occasionally in some form of electronic personal communication, which includes text messaging, sending email or instant messages, or posting comments on social networking sites.
• 57% of teens say they revise and edit more when they write using a computer.
• 63% of teens say using computers to write makes no difference in the quality of the writing they produce.
• 73% of teens say their personal electronic communications (email, IM, text messaging) have no impact on the writing they do for school, and 77% said they have no impact on the writing they do for themselves.
IMO t/ is NBD… not. TTYL!
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