Harding,who has seen such shortcuts creep into papers over the last two years, said she gave her students a warning.
If see this in your assignments, I will take points off.
As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers like Harding are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump form e-mail into schoolwork. To thir dismay, teachers sey that papers are being written with shortened words, improper and punctuation, and characters like.