Michaela Cullington, Does Texting Affect Writing?

A person who drives a car on the highway while he or she is texting will cause serious danger. When people talk together while a person is texting, it is impolite. Students who text during their school time will impact their attention to courses and finally impact their writing skills. On the contrary, Michaela Cullington, in her essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” insists that “I can confidently state that texting is not interfering with students’ use of standard written English and has no effect on their writing abilities in general” (370). However, she is mistaken because she overlooks the facts that texting is a stumbling block of students to becoming good writers by wasting time and distracting students with narrow audiences and informal …show more content…
No matter what kind of conversations they have, they are texting, and no matter what locations they are at, they are texting as well (Cullington 361). By focusing on the convenient communication, Cullington overlooks the deeper problem of students’ school lives. Students who are texting during the time they are studying will have big impact on their attention. For instance, in order to study or write academic papers, students have to follow the train of their thought and concentrate on the plot line to process the writings. People should agree that once the plot line is interrupted, it will be not easy to pick up again. However, when text messages are sporadically or intensively coming into students’ devices, they will either check the inbox messages or send the messages out. These distractions from texting will divert their attention to the other things instead to their papers. Accordingly, texting interrupts students’ mentalities which should be consistent and linked with their articles, and the texting undisputedly brings negative consequences to