53: Texting Ruins Students' Grammar Skills, by Scott Warnock

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Bad Ideas about Writing

Kyle Stedman

66 episodes

5 days ago

Bad Ideas about Writing is an open-access book edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe that counters major myths about writing instruction. Written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. The podcast is unaffiliated with the editors or authors and read by Dr. Kyle Stedman from Rockford University. All donations and ad revenue support the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

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53: Texting Ruins Students' Grammar Skills, by Scott Warnock

Bad Ideas about Writing

20 minutes 58 seconds

3 years ago

53: Texting Ruins Students' Grammar Skills, by Scott Warnock

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Texting Ruins Students' Grammar Skills," by Scott Warnock. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: computers and composition, correctness, digital writing, error, grammar, linguistics, texting

Dr. Scott Warnock is a Professor of English and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts & Sciences at Drexel University. In his 18 years at Drexel, he has taught courses in various modalities and contexts, including onsite, hybrid, and online and ranging from first-year writing to the senior literature seminar to a graduate course. In 2020, he won Drexel’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Warnock is the author or co-author of five books and numerous chapters and journal articles about online writing instruction, computers and composition, and educational technology. He served as President of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators from 2018 to 2020 and Co-Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in Online Writing Instruction from 2011 to 2016. He has maintained the blog Online Writing Teacher since 2005. (2022 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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