54: Texting Ruins Literacy Skills, by Christopher Justice

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Texting Ruins Literacy Skills," by Christopher Justice. 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: colloquial language, digital literacy, digital rhetoric, linguistics, nonstandard language, orthography, standard language, texting

Dr. Christopher Justice is a writer, professor, independent scholar, and conservationist working in the Baltimore metropolitan region, where he has also taught at various local universities including Loyola University, Stevenson University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and University of Baltimore. His scholarship focuses on writing theory and non-traditional writing systems such as texting and different forms of animal communication. His writing has appeared in numerous publications and presses. For more information about his work, please visit http://christopherjustice.weebly.com. (2020 bio)

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