Does Texting Affect Writing Jean Cullington Summary

In Cullington’s paper, “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, She discusses the impacts on how regularly participating in texting could potentially affect a student’s writing in a formal situation. Cullington expresses her beliefs on how text talk could be becoming such a normal part of the youth’s culture today, which they may begin using it in situations that are not appropriate for such. She goes on to further explain how she has run her own type of experiment and gathered opinions and information from others, experts and non-experts, on the matter of this topic. Her final conclusion after exploring and gathering information was that texting in no way affects the way a student writes when they have to write in a formal or educational setting. Throughout her paper, Cullington uses a variety of literary elements to assist her in expressing and explaining the ideas and claims that she examines. One of the literary elements Cullington tends to use throughout her paper is repetition. She does not use repetition in the term of words, but more so through her ideas that she writes about …show more content…
While her whole paper is based on and around the idea that texting may be negatively influencing student's academic writing skills, the entirety of the paper gives reasons why and opinions of others stating that it is not. Cullington’s introduction leads us to believe that the paper will examine and explain how texting is negatively impacting the writing of today’s students in their academic writings. After reading further past the introduction, the paper begins to take a turn and explain how and why texting is not negatively impacting the student’s writings. This is a perfect example of an anomaly because when beginning to read Cullington’s paper one would think it is about how texting is negatively impacting student’s academic writing when it then takes a turn and shows research and opinions as to why it is