From the USA TODAY. Proof positive that the art of good writing is getting lost on this generation.
NEW YORK (AP) — It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study released Thursday, also found that teens who keep blogs or use social-networking sites like Facebook or News Corp.'s MySpace have a greater tendency to slip non-standard elements into assignments.
The results may give parents, teachers and others a big :( — a frown to the rest of us — though the study's authors see hope.
"It's a teachable moment," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew. "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing."
For the entire article, please go to http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2008-04-24-texting-teen-writing_N.htm
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I like to make sure my readership can read and understand what I write on my blogs, so it's proper English. The audience I reach is a very wide age range, so for the most part, slang and emoticons are not used.
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