Longstreet Brittany Longstreet Mrs. Forsythe English 1113-11 15 February 2013 How Does Text Messaging Affect Teen Literacy Text messaging has become an integral part of our lives; it has developed very rapidly throughout the world. With the uprising of new forms of communication that technology has introduced comes a debate on what effect these new digital mediums have on literacy. Text messaging is fastly becoming a primary form of communication for various numbers of people around the
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Inquiries involving teenagers and texting have displayed that texting affects the literacy for a majority of the teens who text. Studies have identified beneficial and detrimental effects of teen texting. According to studies involving teens‚ texting has had both positive and negative effects on teen literacy. In today’s society‚ texting benefits many teenagers as it is a useful tool for quick and easy communication. In addition‚ texting is a learning hub and a way for teens to interact among their peers
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Negative Effects of Texting Texting negatively affects teen literacy because it promotes bad grammar and can encourage teens to continue using bad grammar and also poor spelling. Students don’t see the effect texting has on their writing skills‚ and the more they use it the more you get used to writing in textism form. Parents see the slang being used‚ but they don’t do much about it. Phone bills show that teens usually send and receive about 1‚800 text messages if not more per month. When
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Teen literacy has been changing a lot during the past couple of years. It has really affected the age categories from 12-18 year olds. This affect stays with people through out their lives and affects adults as well. There are cures but they do take a while to work. If people don’t practice the cures everyday then they will not be as effective. Teachers have noticed many grammar mistakes in children’s writing and on their homework. It is the teachers responsibility to correct the children’s mistakes
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Rebecca Jimenez Professor Sarah Thatcher English 114 19 September 2013 How Texting Affects Literacy in Teens – Brainstorming Outline: I. Introduction a. 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. Since the technological phenomenon towards the end of the 20th century‚ text
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Texting is Negatively Affecting Teen Literacy Introduction While researching multiple studies on how texting is affecting teen literacy‚ I found that most the results are negative. Some researchers are asking English teachers about their views on this situation‚ while others are gathering information by asking teens themselves. However‚ one of my sources was an international study of texting that turned out to have a positive effect. Texting is negatively affecting teen literacy through bad grammar
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effects that texting is having on the teen literacy? Text messaging has increased in popularity ever since the very first text message that was sent in the year of 1933 by a student who was working for the Nokia Corporation (Druoin and Davis 49). Centre of Science Education at Sheffield University discovered that more than ninety percent of the youth have cell phones and ninety-six percent of them use them to text. (Plester‚ Wood‚ Bell 137). The establishment of cell phones and texting has made a
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The effect of Literacy Due to Texting Nowadays‚ texting is the main source of communication‚ especially for college students. They tend to not have the time to have conversations with others on the phone because of all the studying and work they may be doing‚ so they will send a quick text to keep in contact with friends‚ family‚ or fellow classmates. The way the words are sent in these text messages are usually abbreviated to quicken the process of texting or spell check tends to fix every word
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What is the Effect of Texting on Teenagers? Cell phones are becoming a modern day necessity‚ to the point that they are a must have for every teenager and adult. Human beings are growing increasingly attached to these devices‚ depending on them more and more for their communication with other people‚ job duties‚ and other daily activities that they must accomplish. One way that we are taking advantage of cell phone technology at a rapidly growing rate is through the use of text messaging.
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dramatically in the last decade. People have taken texting to the extreme. The advances in the cell phones have had a large impact on everyone‚ but especially today’s youth. Teens have taken the use of technology to an unsafe level. These bad habits can affect them for the rest of their lives. Teens are to distracted by their cell phones. Texting is causing teens to be distracted while driving‚ limiting their social skills and is causing teen texting tendonitis. Traffic crashes are the leading causes
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