Do you think whether texting is helping us or hurting us? A book called “They Say I Say with Readings” contains many articles, one of the article is about, “Does texting Affect Writing?” by Michaela Cullington, shows what people’s viewpoints about whether texting is beneficial to us or not. Texting is common to most students in their everyday life, also “becoming popular in the business world because it allows quick messages to be sent” (Cullington 361). Cullington has collected the data and performed experiments to collect the data to show the statistics. According to Cullington, “Some people believe that… abbreviations is hindering the writing abilities of students, and others argue that texting is actually having a positive effect…, [also]
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Some students tend to use abbreviations in their texting so much that they do not realize that they are using it in their academic papers. Most of the teachers argue that their students use abbreviation in their academic papers (Cullington 363). One of the English teacher believes that words that are being used in texting is another language that is specially used in the texting, is becoming “second nature” to students (Cullington 363). Students get so used to text language that they do not even realize when they are using it. Most of the teachers also complain about the punctuation. They believe that students tend not to take the stress on punctuation while texting, so students tend not to use punctuations like “commas, apostrophes, and even capital letters to begin sentences” (Cullington 363). Some teachers started to take points off, if students used any abbreviations in their paper (Cullington 363). By doing this, students can learn to use appropriate words in the papers instead of abbreviations. Students will learn from their mistakes once teachers start to be strict with them. There could be a positive view-side of
Some students tend to use abbreviations in their texting so much that they do not realize that they are using it in their academic papers. Most of the teachers argue that their students use abbreviation in their academic papers (Cullington 363). One of the English teacher believes that words that are being used in texting is another language that is specially used in the texting, is becoming “second nature” to students (Cullington 363). Students get so used to text language that they do not even realize when they are using it. Most of the teachers also complain about the punctuation. They believe that students tend not to take the stress on punctuation while texting, so students tend not to use punctuations like “commas, apostrophes, and even capital letters to begin sentences” (Cullington 363). Some teachers started to take points off, if students used any abbreviations in their paper (Cullington 363). By doing this, students can learn to use appropriate words in the papers instead of abbreviations. Students will learn from their mistakes once teachers start to be strict with them. There could be a positive view-side of