We had to read these two articles for today´s class.
The first piece is about a Stanford study of writing. It didn't really come as a surprise to me that young people are writing more today than they´re parents, or even people few years older than the "net generation". But are young people better writers?
Well maybe. It´s probably pretty hard to determine. I, for one, don´t use the popular contractions, like LOL, OMG, or GWUAR, when I´m writing an essay because I´m not retarded. But then again, I use them when I talk with my friends, online or in person, so maybe I suffer from mild retardation.
But maybe these contractions are a wave of the future, me sixty years old and using "LOL" or something.
