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Apr 29, 2008WAMU, American University Radio
"If you're a parent, it probably comes as no surprise -- the informal punctuation and spelling teens use while using Instant Messenger or text-messaging is now creeping into their formal academic work. A new report looks for 'the teachable moment'...
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Apr 28, 2008Tech News World
"Text-speak, the shorthand slang that some people employ when using electronic communications tools like text messages and e-mail, is winding its way into teens' schoolwork and formal writing, according to a recent Pew study. It's a new version of...
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Apr 25, 2008Orlando Sentinel
"OMG, did u C the report about txting and skool?
No, wuz up?
Here's the 411:
A study released Thursday confirmed what teachers, parents and academics have long suspected: All that instant messaging and texting teenagers do i...
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Apr 25, 2008The New York Times
"As e-mail messages, text messages and social network postings become nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers, the informality of electronic communications is seeping into their schoolwork, a new study says.
Nearly two-thirds of 700 stu...
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Apr 25, 2008St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Anybody who's ever watched a teenager with a cell phone or computer knows one thing: Teens spend a lot of time pressing keys.
But are they actually writing anything?
That depends on whom you ask.
The teens don't seem to think...
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Apr 25, 2008San Jose Mercury News
"OMG. Hieroglyphic text-speak is slipping into homework.
A national look at middle- and high-schoolers found that two-thirds of students have accidentally used instant-messaging style in their academic work, according to a survey released T...
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Apr 24, 2008The Associated Press, Google News
"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...
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