Does Texting Affect Writing By Michaela Cullington

In the essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” Michaela Cullington tries to find out if texting really affects the writing skills of students. Cullington conducts her research by interviewing her own past teachers and by using other people’s research on the subject. Logic is used in Cullington’s essay many times to try to persuade her readers to agree with her research results. Cullington does not believe that texting effect students writing because they know when to use textspeak and when not to use

Does Texting Affect Writing? In the essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” The author, Michaela Cullington, does a study to figure out whether texting affects students writing skills, and she argues that texting does not affect student’s writing skills. Owing to her well-developed research, Cullington discover that some people consider that the using of abbreviations in text-messaging is affecting the writing skills of students while other believes the contrary, that texting helps student to write

Comment and Response to Texting and Writing by Michaela Cullington After reading Texting and Writing, by Michaela Cullington, I do not agree with many of her viewpoints. Cullington argues that texting does not affect a students writing. Textspeak, the abbreviation and shortening of words like used when writing a text message, does affect the way a student writes because they use the abbreviations, and their writings tend to lack punctuation. When a writer uses excessive abbreviations on a regular

In recent discussion of, “Does Texting Affects Writing” by Michaela Cullington, one view is that texting has a negative impact on teens and their writing. Cullington shows both sides of what students, teachers, and professors have to say about the issue of texting; yet after research this belief may not prove to be true. Then she writes about personal experience regarding the issue.    Text has become one of the most common ways teenagers communicate with others. This led to many people believing

“Does Texting Affect Writing” is about Michaela Cullington, the author, comparing two opposing perspectives. The perspective is whether texting hinders the formal writing skills of students or not. Millennials are a population that cannot go a day without looking at their phones so, due to the “increasing use of mobile phones, concerns have been raised about its influence on their literacy skills. No matter if it is sending or receiving a text or checking social media sites, technology has taken

detrimental to our mind is the essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” by Michaela Cullington. In the essay, the author Michaela Cullington talks about and asks the question if texting is affecting our ability to write. One example of how texting can affect our writing is according to Cullington, “In order to more quickly type what they are trying to say, many people use abbreviations instead of words.” Michaela Cullington explains in this quote how texting can affect writing by talking about how people use

In Michaela Cullington’s article “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she addresses a superstition that the older generation of today believes to be a possible issue. This issue is the potential for texting via cell phones to negatively affect young peoples’ abilities to write correct, formal papers. In her writing, she logically dismissed these accusations by providing proof against this believe while presenting her defense in a persuasive manner. Cullington is able to backup her claims by supplying

Communication From the beginning when humans developed the written word, novel forms of technology in all of its forms, have been hailed as potential saviors of our society or as the harbinger of its downfall. Modern communication methods such as texting, tweeting, IM’ing, and other forms of digital interaction have been credited as a new wave in learning techniques or as the end of verbal exchange and intelligence in today’s youth. Various authors have offered their opinions either for or against

like that Michaela Cullington author of “Does Texting Affect Writing?” looks at both sides of the argument surrounding technology effect on writing and ultimately shows how it doesn’t affect writing. Likewise, Clive Thompson author of “Smarter Than You Think” also has a stand point on how technology and shows it helps us not harm us in the way people think. After reading Cullington’s article it provides example of how

using abbreviations as opposed to spelling the words out. According to Michaela Cullington in her article “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she states, “some people believe that using these abbreviations is hindering the writing abilities of students, and others argue that texting is actually having a positive effect on writing” (Cullington). There have been many debates on the issue that texting is having an impact on the writing abilities of students and to this date there is still an ongoing debate