November 26, 1999
Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing
Many professors try to combat the bad habits they fear their students pick up on computers
Ever since the days when students wrote in chalk on slates, or dipped quills into ink pots, technology and writing have been closely connected. But computers are affecting students' writing in ways unlike any other technology in the memory of their instructors.
Professors say students come to college accustomed to writing in the unstructured, chatty style of
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