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.
Cullington starts her argument through the introduction of texting which she then correlates to TextSpeak. Consequently, she uses the topic of TextSpeak as a bridge to voice a few concerns against her argument. Throughout her paper Cullington examines the effects of texting on academic writing in the form of TextSpeak to which she claims, has a minimal effect on student’s writing.
To champion Cullington’s argument, she then states her methods of research. She goes into extensive detail accrediting her methods and sources. After explaining each of her resources, she claims there is a time and place to use TextSpeak, and academic writing is not one of them (Cullington Page). Cullington had come to the conclusion that students could decipher when it was an optimal opportunity to use TextSpeak, and therefore there had a minimal effect on academic writing (Page).
Cullington summarizes her findings while adding her own personal anecdote. In …show more content…
Regarding research, many experiments require a large pool of subjects that are varied and random. In the case of Cullington, her first mistake was her relatively scant sample size of nine humans. While this could have been overlooked, her second mistake was that she also failed to produce a random, unbiased audience. Cullington tries to justify her sample by proclaiming that her subjects were some of her “closest and most reliable friends" (Cullington 366). Consequently, as most people understand, close friends do not form an unbiased result making her methods of research
Cullington starts her argument through the introduction of texting which she then correlates to TextSpeak. Consequently, she uses the topic of TextSpeak as a bridge to voice a few concerns against her argument. Throughout her paper Cullington examines the effects of texting on academic writing in the form of TextSpeak to which she claims, has a minimal effect on student’s writing.
To champion Cullington’s argument, she then states her methods of research. She goes into extensive detail accrediting her methods and sources. After explaining each of her resources, she claims there is a time and place to use TextSpeak, and academic writing is not one of them (Cullington Page). Cullington had come to the conclusion that students could decipher when it was an optimal opportunity to use TextSpeak, and therefore there had a minimal effect on academic writing (Page).
Cullington summarizes her findings while adding her own personal anecdote. In …show more content…
Regarding research, many experiments require a large pool of subjects that are varied and random. In the case of Cullington, her first mistake was her relatively scant sample size of nine humans. While this could have been overlooked, her second mistake was that she also failed to produce a random, unbiased audience. Cullington tries to justify her sample by proclaiming that her subjects were some of her “closest and most reliable friends" (Cullington 366). Consequently, as most people understand, close friends do not form an unbiased result making her methods of research