Michaela Cullington’s essay was about how texting has a positive or negative effect on the way we write formal papers. She wrote this essay to inform the audience and to raise the question what they believe. Cullington had resources with information from different resources. She has evidence that could argue either side of this; which makes sense to me because this topic is still up for debate. She did more research but wanted a more personal result, so she did an experiment with her close friends and 2 of her past teachers. I believe this could have skewed the results, with them being people she choose instead of being random. This essay was published in Young Scholars in Writing which has to give credibility with this essay being published
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Yes sometimes when writing it is simpler to use short-handed texts but it’s informal and I’m aware that I shouldn’t use it. But however I don’t think “textspeak” has an effect on our writing. Texting has a much greater effect on spelling, gramtic errors and syntax. We are so dependent on spell check. There are a lot of words that I’m not sure how to spell but if I get close then I can just spell check it and the word is there. I don’t have to learn how to spell words or remember how to spell them because I’m always going to have it to help me out. However before people learn to text they must know how to spell. So this supports that texting has stopped this process of learning to spell words. Texting has a larger effect on grammar and punctuation when writing. Cullington explains, “Many also complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing.”(Bullock, 2013) Which in my opinion leads back to education, not texting. Texting is a tool that we have that creates quick communication without emotion. Many people will use abbreviations when doing rough drafts or having to record information and to shorten words so we can fit more information. This essay evokes me because it relates to my generation and …show more content…
I hypothesised that all the teachers were going to say the same thing; that texting is what makes our writing terrible. Surprisingly this hypothesis was wrong. I asked my current history teacher for his opinion and he had no doubt in his mind that texting has the most impact on our writing. That with his students he see the use of short text and incomplete sentence very frequently. Strongly disagreeing with him, I asked to see some examples of this. When I start to write a paper I will write a rough draft and then write the final paper. I will admit that when writing the rough draft I will include text speaking and abbreviation. I don’t know why you wouldn’t. Yes it’s informal, but your writing is for you, why not use it, as long as you understand when writing your final paper that it’s not formal and you need to fix it. I also asked my English teacher his opinion, he’s argument was completely different. I was flabbergasted at his response. He said text messages were a tool that we have been graciously provided with and how dare someone blame our lack of education with grammar and spell on it. Also informing me that we have been using abbreviations for centuries. I find these different views from both teachers to be interesting. This makes me question whether there is a relationship between people that are advocates of texting and their opinion on this
Yes sometimes when writing it is simpler to use short-handed texts but it’s informal and I’m aware that I shouldn’t use it. But however I don’t think “textspeak” has an effect on our writing. Texting has a much greater effect on spelling, gramtic errors and syntax. We are so dependent on spell check. There are a lot of words that I’m not sure how to spell but if I get close then I can just spell check it and the word is there. I don’t have to learn how to spell words or remember how to spell them because I’m always going to have it to help me out. However before people learn to text they must know how to spell. So this supports that texting has stopped this process of learning to spell words. Texting has a larger effect on grammar and punctuation when writing. Cullington explains, “Many also complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing.”(Bullock, 2013) Which in my opinion leads back to education, not texting. Texting is a tool that we have that creates quick communication without emotion. Many people will use abbreviations when doing rough drafts or having to record information and to shorten words so we can fit more information. This essay evokes me because it relates to my generation and …show more content…
I hypothesised that all the teachers were going to say the same thing; that texting is what makes our writing terrible. Surprisingly this hypothesis was wrong. I asked my current history teacher for his opinion and he had no doubt in his mind that texting has the most impact on our writing. That with his students he see the use of short text and incomplete sentence very frequently. Strongly disagreeing with him, I asked to see some examples of this. When I start to write a paper I will write a rough draft and then write the final paper. I will admit that when writing the rough draft I will include text speaking and abbreviation. I don’t know why you wouldn’t. Yes it’s informal, but your writing is for you, why not use it, as long as you understand when writing your final paper that it’s not formal and you need to fix it. I also asked my English teacher his opinion, he’s argument was completely different. I was flabbergasted at his response. He said text messages were a tool that we have been graciously provided with and how dare someone blame our lack of education with grammar and spell on it. Also informing me that we have been using abbreviations for centuries. I find these different views from both teachers to be interesting. This makes me question whether there is a relationship between people that are advocates of texting and their opinion on this