In US, a national phone survey of teen agers and their parents was conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing. The report has just come today. We should not label them as "cut and paste" generation. They take their writing seriously. We do not we have such surveys in India? Here is what the report says: "Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them." http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/247/report_display.asp --Sukhdev Singh, NIC On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:57 PM, T. Shahab <tshahab@jamiahamdard.ac.in> wrote:
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But the present age of "copy, cut and paste" is making it a very difficult task. In our own University, previously students used to depend heavily on downloaded materials from the net for their assignments which used to have repititative information haphazardly arranged.
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Regards.
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