Young people today write far more than any generation before them

Wired offer an illuminating article here reporting on an investigation that scrutinizes US college students' prose. Andrea Lunsford professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, the leader of the project, comments, "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it — and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.