Thursday, April 24, 2008

2/3rds of Students Admit to Using Text Talk in School Assignments

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. Half of the teens surveyed say they sometimes fail to use proper capitalization and punctuation in assignments, while 38% have carried over the shortcuts typical in instant messaging or e-mail messages, such as "LOL" for "laughing out loud." A quarter of teens have used :) and other emoticons. Overall, 64% have used at least one of the informal elements in school.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2008-04-24-texting-teen-writing_N.htm?csp=34

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