Professor: Grammar Shortcuts OK On Teen Blogs, E-Mail

Yo da spelers in da bloogz :-)
Ksat> Blogging, e-mailing and instant messaging without proper punctuation or correct spelling isn’t so bad if it means more teenagers are writing for fun, says a Purdue University professor of English. “This kind of critical thinking prepares them for writing at the college level, and it teaches them to think and communicate quickly, which will be expected of them in the real world,” said Samantha Blackmon, who studies computers and writing and minority rhetoric.
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