Is Twitter Ruining Our Writing Skills?
In a recent article, The Telegraph reflects on one Cambridge professor’s assertion that Twitter is causing students’ writing skills to “go down the plug hole.”
It’s not the first time the claim has been made that the brevity and fast pace of microblogging negatively impacts written expression.
But how much merit is there to it?
The Case Against Twitter: Tweeting is Corrupting Writing Skills
The argument against Twitter with regard to the issue of modern communication skills stands on the legs of tweets’ usage of abbreviations and jargon in place of correct grammar and syntax.
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