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       xkcd - A Webcomic - Writing Skills (1414)
        
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       I'd like to find a corpus of writing writing from children in a
       non-self-selected sample (e.g. handwritten letters to the
       president from everyone in the same teacher's 7th grade class
       every year)--and score the kids today versus the kids 20 years
       ago on various objective measures of writing quality. I've heard
       the idea that exposure to all this amateur peer practice is
       hurting us, but I'd bet on the generation that conducts the bulk
       of their social lives via the written word over the generation
       that occasionally wrote book reports and letters to grandma once
       a year, any day.
        
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