Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
We're in the midst of the biggest literacy revolution since Greek civilization
Technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it.
Andrea Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
Read more at Ewan McIntosh's blog......
Andrea Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
Read more at Ewan McIntosh's blog......
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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my m8 sys ths is a rlly gd thng 4 tlkn 2 ppl.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Hmmmm. Interesting. I think what's not entirely clear here is whether the subject was essay writing or hand writing. I taught myself touch-typing at age 17 and since then, my need to write by hand has declined and with the advent of the 'net, even more so. In fact, my earlier copperplate has now become rough and rusty.
Technology, including typewriters, has damaged my hand-writing abilities!
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