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Can Twitter Turn Students Into Better Writers?
By admin | September 1, 2009
Can Twitter Turn Students Into Better Writers?
A number of academics believe that writing on the Internet, in all its varied forms, can improve student prose. Mark Bauerlein is not one of them. The professor of English at Emory University noted in his Brainstorm blog post on Saturday that “we don’t see any gains in reading comprehension for 17-year-olds on NAEP exams, the SAT, or the ACT,” referring to the battery of standardized tests taken by teenagers. If Twittering,
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