Efffects of Cell Phone Text Language

In Michaela Cullington’s essay titled, “Does Texting Affect Writing?” the author tests the ongoing question of how today’s youth handles the effects of texting in the education system. Using successful evidence from both sides of the argument as well as participating in her own experiment, Cullington is able to fully demonstrate how texting does not interfere with today’s students and their abilities to write formally in the classroom.

Cellphones are most common in society. The ease of access allows us to have the world at our fingertips 24 hours a day and we never have to unplug. We can surf the web, book a flight, check the weather, and message a friend 1000 miles away without leaving our bed.

This section contains the analysis of the journal article. This journal article contains good language. The tone of the writing is formal and is able to be understood by the reader because of the simple word choice. The language used is good because there were several good vocabularies used such as phonological awareness and rapid naming. The authors also came into a clear conclusion where they are able to make a stand that text messages have positive effects on children’s literacy. However, if it was for adults, it is hard to make a stand. The journal article also showed rhetorical devices that focused more on ethos and logos that can maintain clarity and interest among readers. The authors showed good visualization of the topic such as text

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 and express better their ideas (362). First, Cullington explains the opinions of those who believe texting negatively affects students writing skills, then those who believe text-messaging positively affects writing, and finally her own study.

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.

In the reading “Does Texting Affect Writing,?” the author, Michaela Cullington, defines text-messaging as a very popular way in which teenagers and business uses to communicate without the necessity of speaking in a more convenient and rapid way by writing short messages in their mobile devices. However, Cullington states that in order to communicate in a rapid way by text-messaging many people change words to abbreviations. “The language created by these abbreviations is called textspeak” (361). Owning 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 that is the contrary, that text-messaging helps

Thesis statement: In this paper, I will discuss how the frequent use of text messaging by teens today negatively affects literacy and I will offer suggestions that parents and teachers can implement and teach in order to raise reading, writing, and vocabulary skills.

The use of cell phones has become more and more prevalent throughout the years, and has become the newest and fastest way of connecting and communicating with peers and friends in the 21st century. Students everywhere communicate with others through texting. “On college campuses, as over 97% of college students own a cell phone. (Hudson, Bliss, Fetro, 1)” Cell phones are the new way that adults, teens, students, and often children use to communicate with others. Since texting was first used in the late 90’s, it has worked its way up to one of the most popular ways to interact with others. Student’s texting does not only have impacts on the phone bill, but has positive influences on vocabulary, literacy, and social life.

How does texting affect Teen Literacy? How will teens be able to write and spell in complete sentences, given their reliance on the phones capabilities and limitations? How will teens adapt in the “real world”

Today, technology is transforming and evolving rapidly; at times it feels as if a new smartphone is being released every day. With these new technologies, we see both positive and negative effects influencing people of all ages. One of the major concerns about cell phone use is the impact texting has on the social communication of the world’s youths. In a quest to uncover the effects of texting, I will discuss to what degree texting is detrimental to the social communication between people in our society from my perspective, the positive aspects that are associated with the invention and evolution of texting, the negative consequences with regard to the social development of young people, whether I agree or disagree with John McWhorter’s perspective on texting, and whether or not texting is making people more intelligent.

This study will examine that whether texting SMS will impact on language and writing skills of the teenagers and their social lives, and other related issues. The evolution of technology over the last decade or so has happened at rapid speed. Not only innovative gadgets have been introduced but also popularizing it with new

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.

Texting has been used well into the beginning of the 21st century, ever since mobile phones took on a much smaller approach unlike their counterparts of yesteryear; does the 80’s ring any big bells. Nowadays there is not a person in sight that does not incorporate texting in their daily routine, even though it is more commonly used by preteens and young adults. Even with texting’s rise with this particular group, so too does the complaints about how it is causing more harm than good to our nation’s youth. It is still a form of communication unlike any other; not even calling someone is as popular to our society as good old texting. In their different articles, Jeff K. Caird, Kate A. Johnston, Chelsea R. Willness, Mark Asbridge, and Piers Steel, authors of the journal article “A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Texting on Driving,” Solomon Ali Dansieh, writer of “SMS Texting and its Potential Impacts on Students’ Written Communication Skills,” and Nurul Retno Nurwulan, Bernard C. Jiang, and Hardianto Iridiastadi’s, authors of the research article, “Posture and Texting: Effect on Balance in Young Adults,” go over different negative effects that texting has on our society as a whole. While texting can have a positive effect, it appears to have more dominant negative effect on individual’s driving capabilities, causes poor written communication skills, and loss of postural stability.

This could probably be ascribed to the pervasiveness of SMS text lingo among the students. However, following the wide publication of reports dating back to 2002 on the use of text language in school assignment, some sections of the public became concerned about the decline in the quality of written communication.

A mobile phone or mobile (also called cellphone and handphone) is an electronic device used for mobile telecommunications (mobile telephone, text messaging or data transmission) over a cellular network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. Most current cell phones connect to a cellular network consisting of switching points and base stations (cell sites) owned by a mobile network operator. In addition to the standard voice function, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and