Patologías lingüísticas escritas en estudiantes universitarios de Periodismo en la era digital

Abstract

Students often make spelling and grammar mistakes when composing journalistic texts, especially when these belong to complex journalistic genres, such as chronic or reportage. The spelling and grammar corrector software, such as the one in Microsoft Word©, helps to dramatically reduce writers´ errors, but despite this, they continue to make mistakes, sometimes profusely, especially in the area of sentences or paragraphs. In this linguistic level, the most common error is the anti-normative comma. The students, who were the subject of the present research, do without this punctuation mark, especially when it has the function to mark the alteration in the prototypical Spanish order. Also, in the scope of the word, the omission of the accent is common, as well as the errors that have a phonetic basis, such as: confusion s / z. All are faults that literature has branded as arbitrary spelling errors.