As technology advance, so does our way of communicating. In Michaela Cullington’s “Does Texting Affect Writing” Cullington answer the effects of textspeak, a language used in texting that is often composed of abbreviation, acronyms, and emoticon. In her essay, she addresses the concerns, her experimentation, and findings on the effects of textspeak. Using several rhetorical contexts: logos, pathos, and ethos, Cullington puts forth a convincing argument against textspeak impacting formal writing negatively.
As a research paper submitted to Young Scholars in Writing, Cullington’s essay appeals toward logos. Logical appeals are composed of factual statement and statistics that can prove an argument. The first appearance of logos in Does Texting …show more content…
The information from National Center for Education could bring concern to the reader. Another use of pathos in Cullington’s essay was a quote from Jacquie Ream, a former teacher and author of Keep It Short and Simple who stated, “[W]e have a whole generation being raised without communication skills.” (quoted in Cullington) On one side readers would feel sad on how far communication and technology has come to just destroy the latter generation without giving them any communication skills. On the other side readers may feel scared about the how much this would influence them or the generation afterward. In general, readers would feel concern about texting and textspeak and how it influences children, however some experts would disagree with those concern. Of those expert, some would see textspeak to be a “language evolution” (Cullington 365) an example would be David Warlick, a teacher and author of books about technology, he believes “students should be given credit for inventing a new language ideal for communicating in a high-tech world.” (quoted in Cullington) As an opposition against textspeak having bad influence, Warlick’s quote brings the bright side of textspeak. He wholeheartedly believes textspeak is language evolution that allow communication between individuals to speedup communication and students should be proud of their creation. Although none of these influential statements are made …show more content…
Having graduated from high school as a senior, she became her own reliable source to reference off. In her essay, she claimed herself as a frequent texter who sent and received around 6400 text messages monthly. (369) Being a frequent texter she shares her perspective on how texting affects her ability to write and spell. But just stating her own experience with the topic doesn’t make her trustworthy. Cullington further emphases on her ethos as she conducts her own research with a small sample size of seven high school and college students. (366) Conducting her own research allows Cullington to build up her own points and express her finding to add to the discussion of the argument. These aren’t the only places she proves her own credibility to the topic, her essay Does Texting Affect Writing was approved by the Young Scholars in Writing, an undergraduate journal of writing published by University of Missouri-Kansas City (361). Any paper published in a journal would had to go through testing on its credibility and factual statement, moreover, it was published by a university. Given her action, analysis, and acceptance by the undergraduate journal committee, Michaela Cullington is credible and is reliable to talk about this subject and its information
As a research paper submitted to Young Scholars in Writing, Cullington’s essay appeals toward logos. Logical appeals are composed of factual statement and statistics that can prove an argument. The first appearance of logos in Does Texting …show more content…
The information from National Center for Education could bring concern to the reader. Another use of pathos in Cullington’s essay was a quote from Jacquie Ream, a former teacher and author of Keep It Short and Simple who stated, “[W]e have a whole generation being raised without communication skills.” (quoted in Cullington) On one side readers would feel sad on how far communication and technology has come to just destroy the latter generation without giving them any communication skills. On the other side readers may feel scared about the how much this would influence them or the generation afterward. In general, readers would feel concern about texting and textspeak and how it influences children, however some experts would disagree with those concern. Of those expert, some would see textspeak to be a “language evolution” (Cullington 365) an example would be David Warlick, a teacher and author of books about technology, he believes “students should be given credit for inventing a new language ideal for communicating in a high-tech world.” (quoted in Cullington) As an opposition against textspeak having bad influence, Warlick’s quote brings the bright side of textspeak. He wholeheartedly believes textspeak is language evolution that allow communication between individuals to speedup communication and students should be proud of their creation. Although none of these influential statements are made …show more content…
Having graduated from high school as a senior, she became her own reliable source to reference off. In her essay, she claimed herself as a frequent texter who sent and received around 6400 text messages monthly. (369) Being a frequent texter she shares her perspective on how texting affects her ability to write and spell. But just stating her own experience with the topic doesn’t make her trustworthy. Cullington further emphases on her ethos as she conducts her own research with a small sample size of seven high school and college students. (366) Conducting her own research allows Cullington to build up her own points and express her finding to add to the discussion of the argument. These aren’t the only places she proves her own credibility to the topic, her essay Does Texting Affect Writing was approved by the Young Scholars in Writing, an undergraduate journal of writing published by University of Missouri-Kansas City (361). Any paper published in a journal would had to go through testing on its credibility and factual statement, moreover, it was published by a university. Given her action, analysis, and acceptance by the undergraduate journal committee, Michaela Cullington is credible and is reliable to talk about this subject and its information