“Fears that text messaging may have ruined the ability of teenagers to write properly have been shown to be unfounded after a two-year study revealed that youngsters are more literate than ever before”,Times Online reports.”The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher.The quality of writing has also improved, said Alf Massey, head of evaluation and validation at Cambridge Assessment,the department of Cambridge University that carried out the study”.

Texting teenagers are proving ‘more literate than ever before’