Michaela Cullington’s essay, “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, discusses three hypotheses on whether texting carries a negative, positive, or no effect in academic writing. While she was undergraduate student at Marywood University, she wrote this essay in 2010 in response to the bias held by teachers, authors, and students on the effects of texting. Perhaps during the year of 2010, the significant increase of texting led her to write this article. Because technology and electronics perpetually keeps on upgrading and updating its efficacy up until today and texting is increasing its popularity among young adults, this topic is relevant for her readers. As an undergraduate student and a frequent texter myself, I can clearly perceive where Cullington
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“I wanted to get different, more personal, perspectives on the issue.” (365) Her keen curiosity on this issue compelled her to conduct her own research and embarked the third hypothesis. So she surveyed seven students on their opinions on the impact texting has on scholarly writing, questioned her two former high school teachers, and analyzed high school and college student writing samples. Instead of just presenting her notion unsubstantiated, the author corroborates it with her own research, authentic research, and personal observations. Cullington, also, earns the reader’s respect because she was an undergraduate student when she wrote this essay and she provided personal experiences with texting, “I myself am a frequent texter. I chat with my friends from home every day through texting” (369). This established her to be credible enough to discuss about this controversy. Through these research, she concluded that texting has no correlation to academic writing, in fact, students are much aware that textspeak is not appropriate in formal writing. By providing her readers with both the positive and negative effects as well as her perspective on texting, she fairly delivered a well-rounded article. However, do the evidences Cullington cited prove conclusively that texting has no effect on scholarly …show more content…
Likewise, when an individual is dependent on a spell checker, it will weaken their ability to spell. Many, even after graduating from high school or college, do not practice writing formally, or sometimes the job that they take up does not require them to write formally. Texting, on the other hand, is widely practiced among graduates and others. As time passes, the lack of practice in formal writing among graduates weakens their ability to write and take up texting skills instead. Thus, companies complain that texting and social media terms have eroded many graduates’ writing skills. Joann Keller, a professor who teaches writing courses at the UCLA, claims that many employers remain shocked as many college educated individuals simply cannot write. Considering all these sides would allow her to come up with a stronger theory. Nonetheless, although Cullington’s evidences may support only a few reasonable points and may not be adequate to prove her theory, her effort to validate her notion is
“I wanted to get different, more personal, perspectives on the issue.” (365) Her keen curiosity on this issue compelled her to conduct her own research and embarked the third hypothesis. So she surveyed seven students on their opinions on the impact texting has on scholarly writing, questioned her two former high school teachers, and analyzed high school and college student writing samples. Instead of just presenting her notion unsubstantiated, the author corroborates it with her own research, authentic research, and personal observations. Cullington, also, earns the reader’s respect because she was an undergraduate student when she wrote this essay and she provided personal experiences with texting, “I myself am a frequent texter. I chat with my friends from home every day through texting” (369). This established her to be credible enough to discuss about this controversy. Through these research, she concluded that texting has no correlation to academic writing, in fact, students are much aware that textspeak is not appropriate in formal writing. By providing her readers with both the positive and negative effects as well as her perspective on texting, she fairly delivered a well-rounded article. However, do the evidences Cullington cited prove conclusively that texting has no effect on scholarly …show more content…
Likewise, when an individual is dependent on a spell checker, it will weaken their ability to spell. Many, even after graduating from high school or college, do not practice writing formally, or sometimes the job that they take up does not require them to write formally. Texting, on the other hand, is widely practiced among graduates and others. As time passes, the lack of practice in formal writing among graduates weakens their ability to write and take up texting skills instead. Thus, companies complain that texting and social media terms have eroded many graduates’ writing skills. Joann Keller, a professor who teaches writing courses at the UCLA, claims that many employers remain shocked as many college educated individuals simply cannot write. Considering all these sides would allow her to come up with a stronger theory. Nonetheless, although Cullington’s evidences may support only a few reasonable points and may not be adequate to prove her theory, her effort to validate her notion is