News Finding: "Overall, the proportion of textisms of all words in the written exams by all participants was a tiny 0.02 percent, and, with the outlying student's results excluded, was reduced to only 0.01 percent--an average of approximately one textism in every 7,200 words."
Paper Finding: Overall, the proportion of textisms of all words in the written exams by all participants was a tiny 0.02% and, with the outlying student's results excluded, was reduced to only 0.01% (an average of approximately one textism in every 7200 words).
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  "Only a very small percentage of words written in these exam papers could be counted as textisms," the researchers report, "and 43 of these occurred in a single student's paper. "Overall, the proportion of textisms of all words in the written exams by all participants was a tiny 0.02 percent, and, with the outlying student's results excluded, was reduced to only 0.01 percent--an average of approximately one textism in every 7,200 words." Advertisement:
  
  Specifically, they found only 39 examples of texting-type contractions, such as using ppl as an abbreviation for people.
Paper Context: Only a very small percentage of words written in these exam papers could be counted as textisms and 43 of these occurred in a single student's paper. Overall, the proportion of textisms of all words in the written exams by all participants was a tiny 0.02% and, with the outlying student's results excluded, was reduced to only 0.01% (an average of approximately one textism in every 7200 words). Various other types of textism types that have been observed in previous research on actual text-messages (e.g., were not seen in the exam papers viewed in this study.