Monday, June 16, 2008

The Fate of The Sentence

Washington Post writer Linton Weeks explores the effect the Internet is thought to be having on the writing skills of young Americans.
This assault on the lowly -- and mighty -- sentence, he (Librarian of Congress James Billington) says, is symptomatic of a disease potentially fatal to civilization. If the sentence croaks, so will critical thought. The chronicling of history. Storytelling itself.

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The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the Wall? - washingtonpost.com
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