A prospective student who enrolled in my AP class emailed me, asking for clarification on a section of the assignment. Her email was littered with, what I call, "text message spelling"--the atrocious abbreviated spelling for very simple words. She did not bother to check her other spelling and her punctuation either. Did she text me from her phone?
I simply replied to her email with the answer, and then added that academic emails should reflect the work I am expecting her to do.
I am nipping that dirty little habit in the bud on the first day of school. Somewhere in my eleven page syllabus, I know I covered that rule about "text message spelling."
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