Professor Johnson suspects a strong link between the rise of instant and casual communication online and an increase in writing mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

All the members of the Dead Weather had a part in writing the songs on their debut album.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

He asked Grant to put the terms in writing so he could sign them.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Republicans said the majority Democrats in Congress had ignored them in writing legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Clare developed a serious interest in writing.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

While Eleanor Johnson believes there is a strong connection between widespread mistakes in writing and Internet usage, she concedes that the scientific evidence might not exist yet to confirm her suspicions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"Our effort here in writing this letter is just urging caution because we're hoping that with the new administration, we will have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means rather than always military confrontation,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

He spent the last week in February writing what he believed to be the true position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

And also some schools in other countries use it as a writing handbook, as do some schools in the United States."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Writing teachers say students in many countries have learned to write beautiful descriptions about something without ever stating the main idea.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

At Indiana University in Bloomington, sixty percent of students who use the Office of Writing Tutorial Services are non-native English speakers.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He seemed to be living the story about the writer who had sold his writing skill in order to make money.

VOA: special.2011.06.26