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Blogging, tweeting, texting, status updating, and e-mailing are just a few of the ways today’s college students write.

But all of this writing doesn’t necessarily mean this generation is composed of better writers.

“Some scholars say this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands,” according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers” discusses what one professor calls the “age of composition” because of the amount of writing people now perform. The studies addressed in the article show how today’s college students write more outside of class than in a classroom setting. They also show that students enjoy social writing, even though it has not positively impacted writing and grammar test scores. Students describe their social writing as more persistent and meaningful to them than their class writing, according to another professor.

The question becomes how to use this passion for outside writing within the classroom boundaries. In other words, how can educators use students’ desire to express themselves socially to help them academically? Perhaps professors make the writing less relevant to students simply by associating it with academia. IDK, but I do recognize that social media is creating a generation of writers who cannot form proper sentences or spell words correctly.