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Coincidentally, my advisor and I were talking about this just the other day. She believes that technology is to blame. That's not to say that she thinks we should toss all our gadgets in the trash, but she believes we should be able to operate effectively without them.
She told me a story about a girl in her Comp I class this past semester. She was watching this girl type up her paper before class was supposed to start and noticed that there were an awful lot of green and red 'squigglies' on her copy. The advisor asked the girl if she was going to bother correcting the mistakes and the girl replied, "I don't have to. Word fixes it for me."
My senior English teacher in high school made us type up all of our papers on a pair of typewriters he kept stashed in the corner. You were careful, you were exacting and every sentence that was written on the final paper came from you. Now, while I'm certainly in no position to criticize anyone's writing, I do believe I've a fairly firm handle on how to use the English language properly and I believe that it's because of my senior English teacher and those damn typewriters.
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