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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