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Text Messaging Threatens Writing Skills, Irish Educators Say
Source: InformationWeek
___________ The rising popularity of text messaging on mobile phones poses a threat to writing standards among Irish schoolchildren, an education commission says. The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern, the State Examination Commission said in a report after reviewing last year's exam performance by 15-year-olds. "The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing as evidenced in the responses of candidates," the report said, according to Wednesday's Irish Times. "Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing."
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Most educators have been saying this for years!
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Stingy and Stubborn
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Call me a freak, but when I text, I text as if I'm writing something for school. Things capitalized, spelt normally, etc.
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