Importance Of Texting Is Good For The English Language By David Crystal

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David Crystal is a professor of linguistics who have 30 years of experience and he is an expert in development of English language. Also he is a lecturer who lectures about faced problems in language and any other question related to English language. A lot of his videos are in YouTube ( David Crystal at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, David Crystal – Will English Always be the Global Language, Academic English – Prof. David Crystal on standard vs non-standard English etc.) . I chose the topic “Texting is good for the English language By David Crystal”. In this context (David Crystal on Texting (S1E2 of It’s Only a Theory)), Professor Crystal is in TV program that is very similar to talk show and name of the TV program is It’s …show more content…
Also PowerPoint slide have some advantages. PowerPoint presentation is likely to be have less words than regular essay. As a result of having less words, the words used in PowerPoint slides are more accurate than words used in regular essays and usually PowerPoint slides have only the main points of topic that being explained. Therefore, I used only 5 slides in my re-write presentation in order to show advantages of PowerPoint slides. First page was introduction page with picture (picture of David Crystal was sitting in the studio), topic and name of the content on it. Title of second page was “Following 5 points are believed to be true but those are false”. By using this title on the page 2, I expressed the idea that I am going to state briefly about the 5 facts which are not true. Then I stated that 5 incorrect thoughts. I titled the third page as “These are true facts shows people usually think wrong about texting”. As a result, I am giving an idea to readers that I am going to state briefly about facts or researches that have been proved also I stated all facts that corresponds the title. Title of the fourth slide was “The point that shows “texting is good for the English language”” and in this page I wrote ideas that made David Crystal to think “texting is good for the English language”. On the last page, I wrote citations. However, there is no much more resources except video that is on YouTube, so I wrote the name of the video and printed the link of the

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