SMS language

Studies have been shown that pubic service annoucements have brought a great scale of attention to those who drive daily. It has helped many people make conscious choices about when to text and other ways to be safe when driving. Through the use of public figures many people have been more attentive to PSA's.But it's eesy to hear something, than to actually do. Even the people who advertise these messages breaks the rules sometimes. People know tht testing and driving is not a safe thing. But…

While planning and working on my PSA I decided I want to address an issue that happens frequently especially to people in my generation and that is Texting While Driving. Something is see everyday and hear it and the fatal accidents it causes.And I felt like people specially teengers need to realise the risk of texting while driving. I tried to appeal to the audience’s pathos, using music related to the issue and short video that can make the audience see the issue from a different point of…

Here are some simple facts about texting and driving."80% of crashes, and 65% of near crashes, involved some form of driver inattention within 3 seconds of the incident." Texting and driving is not just dangerous that it could kill you but it can also get you in a lot of trouble. A girl in Washington is facing criminal charges for not just texting but for facetimeing and snapcahatting while driving thankfully know one was hurt that bad but it could have been worse.…

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…

completely ignored her. People who are engaged with their phones on a daily basis are slowly failing to communicate with one another. In the TED talk by John McWhorter, “Txtng is killing language. JK!!!”, McWhorter discuses that texting signifies an evolution in how language is being written down in a different form. Language is always changing; however texting affects the way we communicate with another. Texting takes us away from using our own voices including the ability to know how to speak…

On Monday, October 5th we discussed how we would going about not using your phone to text for 24 hours, so I decided that I would not text from Monday at 11 o’clock until the same time on Tuesday. My immediate thought process was that this assignment was going to be rather challenging because sometimes you just need to text people to remain in contact and coordinate your daily routine. But as I began to think more about it, I realized how easy this task was going to be. All I had to do was…

Overall, the evolution of technology has positively bridged the communication and information gaps around the world. In our society, there are over 36 billion text messages sent each day; over 1.19 billion active Facebook users; and 320 million active Twitter users each month. It stands to reason from these usage statistics that people have been positively influenced by social media and find it beneficial. But like all things in life, it’s not just sunshine and rainbows. There is growing…

On June 29, 2016, at approximately 1624hrs, I spoke with Hanna Singleton w/f, DOB 11/29/1989, at the Brookfield Police Department in reference to child endangerment. Hanna advised me her ex-boyfriend Jeffery L Glasgow Jr b/m, DOB 3/14/1988, had threated to kill her child, Dayten Glasgow, DOB over via text message. Hanna handed me her phone and I reviewed the text messages. The text messages read “Ive got D where u at And if u went and signed any type of papers. Ull never see him again. alive.…

For this quantitative project I was extremely at a loss at first. For instance, the first set of questions I chose for this project would not work since the answers to the questions were not numerical answers. Since I was confused I contacted the instructor, Mr. Reutz, however I was still confused. Then I decided to take the opportunity to work with a classmate since that option is available. I asked my fellow peer Deanna Hubbard if she would be willing to help me with this project. To begin…

Multitasking has been proven to be ineffective in many cases. Russell Poldrack went so far as to say it “changes the way people learn” making a person’s new knowledge “less flexible and more specialized” (qtd. in Rosen 376). The term effective, however, is used very loosely, largely depending on which exact process you wish to be effective. For instance, no one would say that a Big Mac is an essential ingredient to a person’s health. Be that as it may, it is useful in regards to satisfying a…