Analysis Of Michaela Cullington's Article: Does Texting Affecting Writing

While many strive for technological advances, others are worried that technology can take over cognitive skills in human beings. From watching television to strolling on the Internet, humans are starting to depend too greatly on technological devices and are losing the importance of the malleability of the brain. Because we depend too greatly on technology, people will start to lose the concept of face-to-face interactions, enhancement of relationships, critical thinking processes, and writing abilities. Michaela Cullington’s neutral perspective on technology in his article, “Does Texting Affecting Writing,” gives a plausible argument: that texting has minimal effect on students’ writing through their awareness of knowing not to use the “texting language” in their formal papers. I argue that people should not use text messages as the main source of communication –since texting affect negatively towards young students’ ability to write a concise, formal paper due to the excessive use of …show more content…
Her research proposes that texting has minimal effect on student writing (Cullington 367). Speaking for myself, I believe that texting does have an ill correlation with writing because it allows students to be lazier and uses informal language. I am not saying that texting is a bad thing, but there should be a time when abbreviations or informal language needs to stay in the texting realm due to professionalism. As one Minnesota high school student said, “[T]here is a time and a place for everything and formal writing is not the place for communicating the way one would if he or she were texting to his or her friends” (Cullington 368). The “Textspeak”, the slang term the author uses when talking about text messages, is designed to give us a break from calling our friends and family when there is something small we need to tell them –not to carry out our minds in conversations or in our