Mike Sauter sends in a piece from Wired profiling fishing expedition* by Andrea Lunsford, a department head of writing and rhetoric at Stanford, from which she concludes that we don't need to worry about silicon chip circuitry and the arpanet causing a decline in general literacy. "[Lunsford] has organized a mammoth project called the mentality test Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples — totality from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring. 'I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,' she says. For Lunsford, wave mechanics isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it — and pushing our literacy in bold new directions."

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