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In the article “The Coddling of the Human Mind” the authors start out the article by talking about the increase

Today, many of us are aware of the current personal struggle when it comes to the autocorrect feature on our cellular devices. As a student representative of the technology committee here at UC Merced, I would like to address some of the negative effects of implementing auto correction, as a standard tool on our classroom computers. As particularly noted in the article “Auto Crrect This!,” James Gleick talks about the many different scenarios on how much this is negatively impacting the world we live in today. The article speaks on how the world is essentially becoming dumber and reliable on features such as autocorrect. With the current use of an unstable algorithm, world of ever changing language, and the constant imperfection of artificial intelligence; autocorrect should be a feature that should only be used when it comes to text messaging our best friends.

In the article “2b or not 2b”, David Crystal begins with discussing how others such as John Humphry argued that texters are “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbors 800 years ago. They are destroying it” (335). This is also the common belief of most people. People often argue about the bad points of technology over our language. However, Crystal believes that texting can improve children’s ability to read and write rather than hinder their literacy as many people claim. He also argues that not all texting are done in abbreviated words. Complex messages and institutional messages are often texted in standard form of

The result verified that there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores based on the number of abbreviations in their sent and received text messages (Swayne and Messer). In other words, the word abbreviations and punctuation short-cuts that famously used in text messaging can alter individuals’ ability to recognize and apply proper spelling, grammar and punctuation techniques in writing and daily life communication. If the uses of abbreviations are not controlled from the beginning, both sender and receiver of text messaging will be associated with how poorly they will perform on the test based on the level of standard literacy they have.

The expansion of the Internet has changed how Americans communicate. The development of long syllabi is an example of evolving

The words that we use in every day conversation help us to convey a message to whoever we are speaking to. Words are used in order to evoke a reaction, or create a lasting effect on whoever is receiving them. Authors determine the words they want to use by organizing their arguments or main points. In both Hipster: The Dead End Of Western Civilization by Douglas Haddow, and Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff, the authors choose to make use of intellectual diction in order to indicate the idea that an absence of spontaneity is holding society back.

The video discuss point of view of John McWhorter on texting. Most of people believe that texting is a language decline, constituted by the lack of ability to write. On the other hand, the speaker has tried to expose positives point of texting language, explaining how hard it is to write the way we talk. Besides that, John comments that language exists millions of years before writing, and for writing you need apply many grammatical artifacts such as punctuation, that it is not pronounced during speech. Then, he affirmed that “texting is exactly fingered speech”. In my point of view, texting language comes on to destroyed formal language. Although the language goes through frequent transformations for the adequacy of each period, this type

People don’t know how to spell anymore! This skill is becoming rarer in America. “The Country’s Going Through A Rough Spell” by Bob Greene, is about how more and more Americans don’t know how to spell correctly. People don’t think they need to know how to do it, or that it is too hard to bother with. Bob Greene is dismayed by how many people don't know how to spell. Every letter he reads has some misspelling. Letters from students, businessmen, executives, secretaries and even teachers have misspellings. Furthermore, people are too lazy to look up the word they don't know how to spell. It’s a simple step to take, but people aren’t taking it. That’s the saddest part about the Americans’ disability to spell. Misspelling words shows a lack of

Thesis: As expressed by E. B. White’s essay and my own juvenile ventures, childhood memories influence one’s understanding of identity because they can restore an appreciation for the simple wonders of youth in an individual’s older self, and demonstrate the characteristic developments one undergoes on the path to adulthood. A. The memoirs of one’s childhood may remind an individual of their passed admiration for the simple things, allowing an individual to reaffirm such a naïve fondness within adulthood. i. In his work, E. B. White presents the following insight on how his younger self was a beneficial influence for establishing his identity: “This boy…had a good effect on me…he lived a life of enchantment; virtually everything he saw

In the article” Is Texting Killing the English Language?” from TIME, they start the article off with one critic referring to texting as the downfall for the written word. “Penmanship for illiterates,” The article goes not agree with the critic. The article explains that texting is the new kind of talking. In these times there is hardly any hand written correspondence. If you want to reach out to someone you send then an email or the most common is a text. Texting has made reaching out to someone so easy and convenient. If you have a thought, or an idea you grab your phone and send a text message. You usually have a response within seconds. I don’t think that technology is killing the written language; I feel that it is just making it easier to have quick communication with others. I feel that texting is like short hand you are abbreviating words to get your message across quickly. Our society is so rushed and

The “E” stands for extraversion. People who are extroverted focus their attention outwards and the external world of action appeals to them. They tend to be more talkative, sometimes without thinking, and have a diverse range of interests (www.typefocus.com/self_assessments/personality_your_four_letters). I somewhat agree with this result, I do enjoy socializing, talk without thinking, and I am generally a talkative person, but it all depends on who I am with and the environment I’m in. My extroversion comes out when I’m in a comfortable and familiar environment and with friends I can be very loud, flamboyant and thrive in a fast paced environment. But, I’m also someone who suffers from anxiety and become an introvert at times. Occasionally, I shy away and keep to myself and I tend to think too much without vocalizing what I’m thinking about. An example of my introversion would be while I’m at school, I go straight to class, keep to myself and during lunch I am also often by myself and keep to myself and go straight home afterwards. The school setting triggers my anxiety and I don’t enjoy being around so many people, so I avoid them. I would perceive my personality to be both extroverted and introverted due to the fact that it changes depending on

Most individuals who write on a computer do not realize that their fingers tap out words on a keyboard that is known as QWERTY, named after the first six keys on the upper row of letters. The QWERTY keyboard is intentionally inefficient and awkward. This keyboard takes twice as long to learn as it should and makes us work about twenty times harder than necessary. But QWERTY has persisted since 1873, and today unsuspecting individuals are taught to use the QWERTY keyboard, unaware that a much more efficient keyboard is

We are replicating J.R. Stroop’s original experiment The Stroop Effect (Stroop, 1935). The aim of the study was to understand how automatic processing interferes with attempts to attend to sensory information. The independent variable of our experiment was the three conditions, the congruent words, the incongruent words, and the colored squares, and the dependent variable was the time that it took participants to state the ink color of the list of words in each condition. We used repeated measures for the experiment in order to avoid influence of extraneous variables. The participants were 16-17 years of age from Garland High School. The participants will be timed on how long it takes them to say the color of the squares and the color of the words. The research was conducted in the Math Studies class. The participants were aged 16-17 and were students at Garland High School. The results showed that participants took the most time with the incongruent words.

Texting is a fairly new form of communication that has taken the world by storm. It became popular around 2001, and originally had its limitations, such as the 160-character limit. But now that technology has advanced, texting has followed along and is now a convenient, casual, and a more immediate way of communicating. So naturally, texting has evolved also in terms of the language used within it. We see this mostly in the form of abbreviations and short hand spelled words. Some people argue that texting has ruined the English language. Studies and observations have shown that the benefits of texting and cyber speak are much more broad then expected. Textisms have been shown to increase phonology skills, brain activity, creativity and provide a relatable outlet for students in education.

This proves that the rise of English is not dominant. Why is that? Why is one writing system not completely dominates the other? There are two reasons for that which is the enormous civilization and culture that was already built upon these writing systems and the fundamentals difference between these two writing systems.