Texting Affect Writing

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With rapid change of the technical development over the several decades, a lot of modern forms of communication step into our life, such as soft applications for smartphone and different social network sites. These modern communication forms help people in interacting with others in real or virtual world more convenient and faster. Meanwhile, these new technologies working for communication are forming the present social medias. Social media have become a significant part of life to keep connection between people with society and others today. Our lives have been affected by various social media. For example, as an impact of present social media, the development of mobile technology has played an important role in daily life of people. If people …show more content…

From ancient times to the present, people keep sharing various information by writing. Books, letters and newspaper are carriers for helping people to share their communication with others. However, some people concern that the development and application of modern information and network technologies might lead to bad behavior that against teenagers’ education. According to Michaela Cullington, a writer who wrote “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, “Many also complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing” (Cullington 363). Cullington mentions some complaints that texting, a production of present social media, affect students’ writing ability badly because teachers say that students would forget how to use punctuation correctly by using texting. And there is another complaint that “Many argue that texts lack feeling because of their tendency to be short, brief and to the point” (363). This complaint mainly argues that students are usually not expressing their emotion actively by texting so that teachers are afraid of this would happen in students’ writing. Although part of people considers teenagers’ education would be affected negatively by the production of present social media, there still exists another part of people who believe that social media bring a benefit to teenagers’ education. Also in Cullington’s article, she points out “texting should be viewed as beneficial because it provides students with motivation to write, practice in specific writing skills, and an opportunity to gain confidence in their writing” (364). As Cullington says in her article, texting has not requirements as many as writing in formal and would allow students to really relax their minds so that reach the goal motivating them to enjoy writing, thus, the social media influence their teenagers’ education in positive way as

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