Liter8 Lrnrs: Is Txting Valuable or Vandalism?
Dr Clare Wood, Dr Bev Plester and Samantha Bowyer report some conclusions from their British Academy-funded research project.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in British Academy Review, Issue 14 (November 2009).
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