Gilles Tran wrote:
> It's about the Standford Study of Writing
> http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
> http://ssw.stanford.edu/
> The obvious criticism of the study is that it's based on the writings of 
> Standford students, who are not the most illiterate bunch. The writing 
> skills of Standford students may be better, but what does it say on the 
> writing skills of the rest of the population? What rings true, however, 
> is that people write more, and that just having more venues to write 
> (even if it's just inane Youtube/4chan/fark comments) is better than not 
> writing at all.

Thanks, that's exactly the one I was thinking of :)

...Chambers

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