You could argue that social media is playing a huge role in showing our younger generations that it is alright to abbreviate words and excessively use acronyms for many phrases when communicating with others. If this is how kids start communicating with each other then it would eventually lead to them using this to talk to each other when they are co-workers and this could not be more wrong. Dillon uses this quote to effectively connect to his audience because they could either, relate to and be guilty of this problem or they could understand how big this problem has grown to become in recent years. This helps achieve Dillon’s purpose because if students were getting taught earlier on how to improve their writing skills, then these same students would realize that something such as writing a professional e-mail, should have proper punctuation, proper grammar and spelling should be checked and corrected when needed. Unfortunately for most corporations in America, this is not taught to students, which in return leads to them not understanding the difference between different styles of writing, ranging from casual communication to, more importantly, professional communication. This is what leads to the poor communication businesses are trying to avoid, but unfortunately cannot avoid due to the lack of students getting educated by their English teachers before they are ready to start searching for
You could argue that social media is playing a huge role in showing our younger generations that it is alright to abbreviate words and excessively use acronyms for many phrases when communicating with others. If this is how kids start communicating with each other then it would eventually lead to them using this to talk to each other when they are co-workers and this could not be more wrong. Dillon uses this quote to effectively connect to his audience because they could either, relate to and be guilty of this problem or they could understand how big this problem has grown to become in recent years. This helps achieve Dillon’s purpose because if students were getting taught earlier on how to improve their writing skills, then these same students would realize that something such as writing a professional e-mail, should have proper punctuation, proper grammar and spelling should be checked and corrected when needed. Unfortunately for most corporations in America, this is not taught to students, which in return leads to them not understanding the difference between different styles of writing, ranging from casual communication to, more importantly, professional communication. This is what leads to the poor communication businesses are trying to avoid, but unfortunately cannot avoid due to the lack of students getting educated by their English teachers before they are ready to start searching for