Here’s the article in The Hatchet, the George Washington University student newspaper, in which UD – in agreement with other GW professors interviewed for the piece – downplays worries about the effects of texting on university writing.
Soltan said bits of texting language occur only on very rare occasions and in informal settings.
“If it’s an in-class writing assignment and it’s a student that’s writing in a very relaxed, colloquial way, then maybe a student makes a mistake and is kind of embarrassed and might put ‘lol’ in parentheses,” [Soltan] said.
August 30th, 2010 at 6:16AM
Off-topic, but thought you’d want to see this PowerPoint pissoff post.