As Abby sat at her kitchen table eating honey nut cheerios, she starts to text her friend Sarah who is away at college.
Abby: “Hey girrrl!! I am thinking about u!!! Hope college is gr8!!”
Sarah: “Hey!! College is sooooo gr8!! I t stop there, she does her own research to find that “textspeak” and informal writing has not impacted students’ ability to write at all, and if anything, informal writing is giving students the opportunities to practice their writing skills more often.
One big difference between all of these authors’ opinions is the outcome of this change. Shellenbarger believes that “textspeak” and informal language is having and will continue to have a negative impact on younger generations and will make it hard for companies …show more content…
In Shellenbarger’s article, she mentions how some businesses are concerned with how the younger generations of employee’s use their language skills. She writes, “Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace. Many of them attribute slipping skills to the informality of email, texting and Twitter where slang and shortcuts are common,” so some companies offer classes to improve writing skills needed for the work force. Notice, the concern of a negative impact that Shellenbarger talks about. She uses words like “fighting,” and “epidemic,” to send readers a negative message. These words create a tone of seriousness and a disapproval sound that is being sent to the reader causing “textspeak” to appear negative. During McWhorter’s speech, he gives example throughout history of how languages have evolved and older generations have been concerned. He states in 1917 that every college is saying that “our freshmen can’t spell, can’t punctuate.” Here McWhorter shares the same concern for the youth that Shellenbarger expresses. Notice the negative tone created by the word “can’t.” This word changes the tone of the whole sentence and creates a feeling of negativity that the audience then picks up. Cullington expresses a concern about the negative impact of “textspeak” as well. In the first section of her article, she interviews English teachers about how they feel “textspeak” is affecting their students. She states that an English teacher “believes that text language has become “second nature” to her student (Carey); they are so used to it that they do not even catch themselves doing it” (363). Notice here that Cullington has a different approach to getting readers to think of “textspeak” in a negative way. Cullington doesn’t state good or bad, but she does use the words
Abby: “Hey girrrl!! I am thinking about u!!! Hope college is gr8!!”
Sarah: “Hey!! College is sooooo gr8!! I t stop there, she does her own research to find that “textspeak” and informal writing has not impacted students’ ability to write at all, and if anything, informal writing is giving students the opportunities to practice their writing skills more often.
One big difference between all of these authors’ opinions is the outcome of this change. Shellenbarger believes that “textspeak” and informal language is having and will continue to have a negative impact on younger generations and will make it hard for companies …show more content…
In Shellenbarger’s article, she mentions how some businesses are concerned with how the younger generations of employee’s use their language skills. She writes, “Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace. Many of them attribute slipping skills to the informality of email, texting and Twitter where slang and shortcuts are common,” so some companies offer classes to improve writing skills needed for the work force. Notice, the concern of a negative impact that Shellenbarger talks about. She uses words like “fighting,” and “epidemic,” to send readers a negative message. These words create a tone of seriousness and a disapproval sound that is being sent to the reader causing “textspeak” to appear negative. During McWhorter’s speech, he gives example throughout history of how languages have evolved and older generations have been concerned. He states in 1917 that every college is saying that “our freshmen can’t spell, can’t punctuate.” Here McWhorter shares the same concern for the youth that Shellenbarger expresses. Notice the negative tone created by the word “can’t.” This word changes the tone of the whole sentence and creates a feeling of negativity that the audience then picks up. Cullington expresses a concern about the negative impact of “textspeak” as well. In the first section of her article, she interviews English teachers about how they feel “textspeak” is affecting their students. She states that an English teacher “believes that text language has become “second nature” to her student (Carey); they are so used to it that they do not even catch themselves doing it” (363). Notice here that Cullington has a different approach to getting readers to think of “textspeak” in a negative way. Cullington doesn’t state good or bad, but she does use the words