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Critical discourse analysis is a, somehow, new field in linguisticstics. Many scholars have worked on developing this new field which is really useful in people’s everyday life. Critical analysis of media discourse has been worked by Van Dijk (1988). He considered a comprehensive analysis of both the textual and structural level of media discourse and analysis at the production and comprehension level. Wodak (2001, as cited in Shyholislami) and her colleagues have worked on discourse…

Scientists say that teen texting is out of control and that most teens couldn’t give up their phones. However, I think that I could give up my phone because I have a strong will. It would be hard at first because I’m very used to texting a lot. I also think that texting is getting way out of hand. People are texting more than they are having conversations in real life. Let me explain what I mean. First, people are using their phones when they are out in public with friends. Instead of talking…

from a tradition of Western Culture in which the ideal was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality”. Stephen Marche (2012) writes “… connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation… Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a…

Wikipedia accuracy is very low a lot of people say not to use Wikipedia just for the simple fact you can change the words and everything on this site. The content of this site is more or less more valid then the accuracy of the site. Most of the stuff in Wikipedia is true it really just depends on what exactly it is about 80-85 % of it is true. When I was in high school I remember people knowing how to put their own words in Wikipedia. Meaning that you can search something up on this site and it…

adults continue to access the their phones to access the internet, talk, or text because we are in an age where people like to constantly be connected to their friends, family, and people that they follow and friend on the Internet. This is the age of instant reaction and response and people want to stay in the know about what's going on with who and where. People that text and talk on the phone while they're driving have the same mentality as someone who drives drunk because in their mind they…

provided me with an instant messenger reference experience. I wrote the librarian that the Mona Lisa was stolen in the early 20th century and asked when it was returned and what information is known about the theft. Again, I was looking for a book or possible information from an art or history database the university may have that a public library would not. The librarian did not conduct a reference interview trough the instant messenger. The thing that I enjoyed about the instant messenger…

From the early 2000’s to present time, texting started to become popular all around the world. We are constantly on our electronics chatting with friends, family, or loved ones, but the most used tool that we use is texting. As these years have passed by we are getting lazier and lazier when we text. We’ve come to the point where we just a single letter like “u” to portray the word “you”. While we continue to text like this, we need to stop and think and ask ourselves, is texting killing writing…

Txtn or texting Michaela Cullington’s article entitled “Does Texting Affect Writing” presents an argument against the way we write and the way we text. The article argues that as often as we text and the way we text changes the way we write. The position that the writer takes on in this issue is exaggerating the effects that texting has on our life by stating in the beginning of his article, “its taking over our lives” (Cullington, 791). The thesis states “it has become a concern of doctors,…

At the time, Facebook and Myspace were big amongst the adult communities. With a steady amount of children accessing computers and the internet, parents did not want their kids to associate themselves with the adult group. This sparked Lane Merrifield, a father himself, to create a virtual world where kids could interact with each other in a safe but fun community with no advertising and negative messages. “Kids had too much advertising in their lives and we didn’t want to add to that clutter”…

He compared a new graduate calling themselves a “Major Epic Feature Film Animation Production Company” to such things as using cliches or slang in an advertisement. (Grebing p.1) On the contrary, using clear language is more effective at getting across your point something that professionals need to be able to do, than…