The Negative Effects Of Texting On Students: Article Analysis

Texting has become an important part of our daily life over the last decade, especially to young people. With the popularity of texting rising more and more each day, lots of people start to worry that this kind of activity is damaging students’ abilities to write a decent paper. However, Michaela Cullington has stated in his article that texting isn’t damaging our capability of writing, and in fact, it has no interferences with our writing abilities in general. In his article, Cullington firstly plants a naysayer in a whole section “concerns about textspeak”. That naysayer presents the idea that texting is damaging students’ abilities to write. He then covers that idea by listing opinions from different sources about the negativities of texting on writing. “Texting …show more content…
But is it true? Cullington then refutes his naysayer by providing the positive opinions of others about the subject in the next section “reponse to concerns about textspeak”. However, only those thoughts alone are not enough, so in order to make himself believable, Cullington has to conduct his own research. Since the main target of the whole debate is about the writing ability of students, he creates a survey for students and professors of 7 different high schools and colleges. The result that he ultimately comes up with is that students don’t use as much abbreviations as people claims them to be, and they