Texting Effects on Written Communication Skills
Jake Morris
Texting Effects on
Written Communication Skills
Abstract
Text messaging, especially in young people, is setting up the dynamics that will present challenges as they continue to grow and mature. Those challenges will present themselves as an inability or difficulties in forming proper sentences and perhaps even result in being unable to differentiate the basic writing nuances in words that sound alike, but have different meanings. This effort on the following pages will present solid arguments as to why this is an alarming - and growing - problem. Linguists have long since provided irrefutable arguments and proof that text messaging as a primary written language has G2G (got to go in texting). Those arguments and evidence will be presented throughout this project.
Texting Effects on Written Communication Skills
Introduction and Background
Wireless users sent thirty million text messages in the United States during the month of June 2001. This, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, was nothing compared to the number of text messages sent just one year later. That thirty million had ballooned into one billion. Not only that, but the U.S. population is currently 314,924,973 (Census Bureau) yet there are 321.7 million wireless subscriber connections (CTIA 2012). That number is indicative of the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the USVI, but the numbers tell an important tale: we have officially and permanently gone wireless in our modern society. With that complete transformation comes the modern language nuances associated with text messaging. Unfortunately, this is not just a phase, but rather, a new and disturbing trend that can easily transition into adulthood, resulting in these young people struggling to fill out job applications or prepare a proper resume, not to mention the other problems they are sure to face with an inability to formulate in
Texting Effects on
Written Communication Skills
Abstract
Text messaging, especially in young people, is setting up the dynamics that will present challenges as they continue to grow and mature. Those challenges will present themselves as an inability or difficulties in forming proper sentences and perhaps even result in being unable to differentiate the basic writing nuances in words that sound alike, but have different meanings. This effort on the following pages will present solid arguments as to why this is an alarming - and growing - problem. Linguists have long since provided irrefutable arguments and proof that text messaging as a primary written language has G2G (got to go in texting). Those arguments and evidence will be presented throughout this project.
Texting Effects on Written Communication Skills
Introduction and Background
Wireless users sent thirty million text messages in the United States during the month of June 2001. This, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, was nothing compared to the number of text messages sent just one year later. That thirty million had ballooned into one billion. Not only that, but the U.S. population is currently 314,924,973 (Census Bureau) yet there are 321.7 million wireless subscriber connections (CTIA 2012). That number is indicative of the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the USVI, but the numbers tell an important tale: we have officially and permanently gone wireless in our modern society. With that complete transformation comes the modern language nuances associated with text messaging. Unfortunately, this is not just a phase, but rather, a new and disturbing trend that can easily transition into adulthood, resulting in these young people struggling to fill out job applications or prepare a proper resume, not to mention the other problems they are sure to face with an inability to formulate in
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