This quarter many student writings show that they don't know where to put commas, or even, how to use them. Does this lack of punctuation have something to do with their text-messaging habit? I'm seeing some sea-changes in their writing pa…

Certainly students don't know how extravagant things they're requesting when they send me drafts in this late morning of the due date, asking quick feedback on them. And they shouldn't know that I'm writing responses in drinking beer and w…