Mapping The Writing lives of First year Collage Students

In the article "Mapping The Writing lives of First year Collage Students", it talks about what first year collage students consider writing. Writing has different forms and in the studies presented in the article it shows that the primary way of writing is texting. Texting along with e-mailing are the two most frequent way students write. For this survey, they tested 1366 recently enrolled students into collage and surveyed them.
the beginning of the analysis begins with what students write in and out of school. In their findings they found that student use SMS and emailing as their most frequent way of writing, followed by lecture notes and academic and research notes
In the study, it shows a relevant factor between students gender.
In the article it says "for fifteen genres where gender is significantly related to frequently, only three categories skewed male, and only one of these in a strong way:websites, with over half of males (53%) and less than half of females (45%) reported writing this genre. Next, It talk about if students really value the writing that  they do. In the survey of valued writing does by teens, number one is texting followed by academic paper.