Texting, the type of writing that even your 3 year old brother can probably do now! Texting has grown and changed over the years. For example, the way people text can be formal or informal. Just like when you write a paper, when you use slang and words you would use around friends would be considered informal, but when writing a letter to a professor you would use more appropriate words. The past week I have been studying the way freshman text among the campus I attend. Based on the many years of slang terms in college, my research reveals that texting formal rather than informal is more common among the freshman students at The University of Memphis. My findings were shocking, but not to me. My research started when I surveyed ten freshman
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You make a complete thought. People text like this because it is clear what you are trying to say, as well as you come off as an adult, and not a kid. Using slang is looked as for younger people and not people who are about to enter the real world. When writing/ texting formal it gives off a professional look that everyone needs that attend college. You want to look like you know how to speak well and can understand a very well educated professor. When in college, things are not like middle school, managers and business partners are always looking, and if you cannot write a proper email, you’re instantly not hired. I choose this topic because it is very essential to a college student to know that writing informal was for middle school, and now you’re in college and things change. While in college you learn to write more formally, which merges into texting more formally. When doing something so often you tend to learn how to just do it without even noticing and that is why we text formal. In my observation, I know that we college students have a lot of new things to get used to, especially a freshman. You are introduced to so many things that after a while you get used to it and it becomes natural. This is another example of why freshman students write
You make a complete thought. People text like this because it is clear what you are trying to say, as well as you come off as an adult, and not a kid. Using slang is looked as for younger people and not people who are about to enter the real world. When writing/ texting formal it gives off a professional look that everyone needs that attend college. You want to look like you know how to speak well and can understand a very well educated professor. When in college, things are not like middle school, managers and business partners are always looking, and if you cannot write a proper email, you’re instantly not hired. I choose this topic because it is very essential to a college student to know that writing informal was for middle school, and now you’re in college and things change. While in college you learn to write more formally, which merges into texting more formally. When doing something so often you tend to learn how to just do it without even noticing and that is why we text formal. In my observation, I know that we college students have a lot of new things to get used to, especially a freshman. You are introduced to so many things that after a while you get used to it and it becomes natural. This is another example of why freshman students write