Carol L. Tilley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Carol L. Tilley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Carol L. Tilley, a professor of libary and information science at Illinois, says that critics who equate texting with literary degradation are wrong, and that they also overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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