Texting Gone Wrong Analysis

Sadly in today’s economy everywhere you look you will see texting, the dominance of the human soul, but nevertheless have people noticed the influence it has on our literacy and social interactions as teenagers. Texting shortens and simplifies the English language while it degrades it as well. It is also a big distraction that makes people become irresponsible and lazy. The article “ Texting Gone Wrong” by Turake is ineffective because it gives evidence but it mostly lacks support for the reasons it proposes. In this article the author claims ,” If our society continues to conform to the effects of the technology age, then the English language as we know it will disappear and also that texting affects our literacy and social interactions …show more content…
Due to technology more text messages are being sent and in those messages is the bad grammar that teens are commonly using and making a part of the English language degrading society. It also quotes,” 58 % of students with mobile phones say they have sent a text message during class.” This helps to prove that technology is a distraction to teens in school because the percentage is more than majority according to a survey taken by students at a school. If students are sending messages during class then that means that they are not fully grasping the American language and their slang way of texting is the only thing that they grasp , which is part of the reason literacy is low. In addition it also states,” ………so many teenagers forget to follow simple grammar rules,including capitalizing the first letter in every sentence and I’s.”Although this is a reason to why text messaging and technology is bad for literacy , it does not support nor give evidence to back this up making it weak. A personal example should have been included in order to make this stronger. An experiment could have also been conducted, for example …show more content…
He uses words such as deteriorate, permanently, strongly , drastically, neglect ,and goes down the drain in order to create an influential mood and in order to help people realize the damage that is happening. He uses those words in order to create pathos , he wants the audience to realize the damage and make a change as he states in the end,” The only people that have the power to alter the drastic effects of texting on literacy and social interactions are the teenagers themselves. He is trying to create a feeling of sympathy in the end and