Writing, Technology and Teens [electronic resource] / Amanda Lenhart, Sousan Arafeh and Aaron Smith.
Teenagers' lives are filled with writing. All teens write for school, and 93% of teens say they write for their own pleasure. Most notably, the vast majority of teens have eagerly embraced written communication with their peers as they share messages on their social network pages, in emails and...
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| 520 | |a Teenagers' lives are filled with writing. All teens write for school, and 93% of teens say they write for their own pleasure. Most notably, the vast majority of teens have eagerly embraced written communication with their peers as they share messages on their social network pages, in emails and instant messages online, and through fast-paced thumb choreography on their cell phones. This raises a major question: What, if anything, connects the formal writing teens do and the informal e-communication they exchange on digital screens? A considerable number of educators and children's advocates worry that James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was right when he recently suggested that young Americans' electronic communication might be damaging "the basic unit of human thought--the sentence." They are concerned that the quality of writing by young Americans is being degraded by their electronic communication, with its carefree spelling, lax punctuation and grammar, and its acronym shortcuts. Others wonder if this return to text-driven communication is instead inspiring new appreciation for writing among teens. While the debate about the relationship between e-communication and formal writing is on-going, few have systematically talked to teens to see what they have to say about the state of writing in their lives. Responding to this information gap, the Pew Internet & American Life Project and National Commission on Writing conducted a national telephone survey and focus groups to see what teens and their parents say about the role and impact of technological writing on both in-school and out-of-school writing. This report looks at teens' basic definition of writing, explores the various kinds of writing they do, seeks their assessment about what impact e-communication has on their writing, and probes for their guidance about how writing instruction might be improved. (Contains 2 tables and 24 footnotes.) | ||
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Social Networks. |2 ericd. |
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Influence of Technology. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Handheld Devices. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Student Attitudes. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Parent Attitudes. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Adolescents. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Writing Instruction. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Writing Skills. |2 ericd. |
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