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Is Texting English Essays the Norm?
Texting is ruining English essays! That is the statement made by a lot of people who are against technology in the 21st century. In the essay “Does Texting Affect Writing” The Author, Michaela Cullington states facts brought up by many people who say harsh things about technology, and texting in general. In the final analysis, texting does not affect English papers as much as people think, and texting also helps in many ways that people are too blinded to see.
Texting is one of the most popular ways to get ahold of people now in 2016. With something so big, of course, there is going to be new ways to communicate. The upsides to texting, which people don’t realize are “Texting is a different kind of writing, …show more content…

If you do that yourself, I don 't think that you just started because of texting, that is just absolute laziness. Plus all phones today come out with "Auto-correct" so instead of you writing "so how r u today?" it corrects it for the next time you want to type it like, "So how are you today?" Another fact he brought up about how texting affects our writing, is how we don 't show emotions in our writing due to "emotions are always sideways smiley faces." Now I can understand how while you 're texting, you don 't need to explain your emotions most of the time because texts consist of less than 10 words, but it doesn 't have any correlation to texting about why we don 't use emotion in writing. Even in text messages, at least when I text, or when my friend 's text, I will put something like, "Haha, that was so funny I 'm crying of laughter now!" not "haha (cry face laughing emoji)". Texting is completely different, it is a platform that you use to instant message friends quick information and quick conversations, so I don 't see how kids can use a language that is meant to be used for quick informal write, to an educational, formal …show more content…

We do have abbreviations for some words or phrases, but when you only pan into the 1% of people that actually might do it, then you 're judging 99% of kids who can actually have the competence to actually write an essay. That is like saying "All Muslims are terrorists" 1% of them decide to make them all look bad. Believe it or not, text-isms have historical roots as well, as the word OK was invented with the telegram because it was concise. It made its way into to Oxford dictionary soon enough, and technically so did the word "OMG". To advance our knowledge and move with the times, we have to stop being ignorant and adapt with what is new in the world, like how everyone has an issue with technology. We can 't just be stuck in the past because that means we 're just not moving forward. Everybody always has to see the negative in everything that is new, which is understandable due to human nature, but I would put texting down as one of the things we have to start getting used to.. We need to start seeing the possibilities and advancement technology can do for us. Texting does not affect the way we write essays and helps with a lot more with fundamentals of the

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