Formal Essay Number 1 In Veronica Stafford’s essay “Texting and Literacy” (found on page 115 in the textbook) she discusses how she thinks texting has doomed the future. She has noticed that at her school many of the students do not pay attention to each other as they walk down the halls between classes; instead of looking at everyone, and where they are going, they are texting. According to Ms. Stafford it is texting that causes students to be stupid and to get bad grades.…
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.…
In today’s time teens use their phone for everything. People mainly see teens’ text on their phones. Have you noticed the way that they talk to each other? They use the text-speak or “digitalk” language. What that means is, instead of using “you” for a sentence, they will use “U” in the place of the real word.…
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…
In John McWhorter’s TED Talk “Txting is killing language. JK!!!” he asserts that despite what many believe, texting is not, in fact, killing the written language. McWhorter concludes that texting is akin to the written version of casual speech. That rather than replacing formal writing it’s like new dialect, simply diversifying the complexity of language.…
When texting, the point is to get a quick message across, unlike a formal essay which takes a lot more time and effort. If one starts putting that much time and effort into a text message, it defeats the purpose. Students know the differences and if there ever is a small mistake in an essay, it is just that: a mistake. Cullington’s research also proved that teenagers rarely use abbreviations.…
Daily interactions and communication with other people is beginning to decline. Is technology, such as cell phones and computers to blame? Michaela Cullington author of “Does Texting Affect Writing?” wanted to find out if formal writing was declining because more and more young adults are on their cell phones or computers. She interviewed a group of people that did agree that texting was ruining student’s formal writing. The concerns showed a shocking number that “Only 25% of high school…
In the article “Texting may be taking a toll” the author Katie Hafner explains how texting is affecting kids/teens in the world today. In “texting may be taking a toll”, Katie hafner states that physicians and psychologists are getting worried that texting is very well taking a toll on teens and that it's starting to cause sleeping issues and other issues in teens. Dr. Martin Joffe, who is a pediatrician in california surveyed many kids who says these kids/teens send hundreds of texts a day. “That's one every few minutes”.…
The authors Janet Kornblum “Tapping into Text Messaging” and Michael Rubinkam “Texting in Class is Rampant” debate the good and bad sides of Texting with information and support. The idea of texting started in Europe in the late 90s, now it’s all over the world and communication had changed because of it, Texting, like speech, sign language and writing, is part of our developing language system. The authors tries to stay neutral towards the tropic, they highlighted both, pros and cons that come with Texting. They agree that the major concern is the distraction that come from texting. According to paragraph 7 in “Tapping into Text Messaging” Teens represent the age group that texts the most.…
The daily activity of texting has slowly taken over the lives of this generation. Some say it is a useful tool and some say that it is detrimental. The debate brought upon by the article is whether or not texting translates into daily writing. The author, Michaela Cullington, discusses this question in her article “Does Texting Affect Writing?” In the article, the author portrays what texting is and what has come out of it.…
The article of concern here is Does Texting Affect Writing? by Michaela Cullington. The research paper examines the effects of texting on students’ academic writing. In Cullington’s findings, she concludes that texting has a minimal effect on writing.…
In Michaela Cullington’s article, Does Texting Affect Writing, Cullington talks about the debate of texting affecting students writing. The writer uses many sources to back up both sides. Many teachers agreed that texting does inflict bad habits on student’s writing. Other teachers insisted that texting helped with student’s imagination and creativity while writing. In this article Cullington also involves the students themselves by asking them questions about their texting habits.…
Texting is a great way to get our ideas and feelings out to somebody in a quick and convenient way. John McWhorter, who is a linguist (a person that can speak many different types of foreign languages) is a linguist teacher at the University of Columbia (CNN Profiles). He has very high knowledge and this makes him a credible source in his area of study that texting makes…
However, some may further contest the age group Crystal studied. He analyzed the usage of text language of teenage students, not all texters. Recent experience of my own has shown that it is not teenagers, but older adults who use text language most frequently. Yet, even with this contrast, text language by both young and older age groups that I have encountered has overall a minimal usage and I have never seen it…
Language and Literacy for teachers Assessment 1 Thesis A child’s language development is intertwined with all other areas of their development and therefore it plays an integral role in their cognitive and intellectual growth. Introduction Language is an abstract set of principles that specify the relationship between a sequence of sounds and a sequence of meanings. Everyday life constitutes and intrinsic part of the way language is used.…