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Orlando Gonzalez

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 0 views

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level,"
  • Poor grammar is the major reason students fail
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  • "If a student has problems with articles, prepositions, verb tenses, that's a problem."
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    This article discusses how social networking is hurting the youth of today on how to use proper grammar. "Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for"
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    Schools are not teaching the proper way to use grammar anymore, and with the internet being so dominant our youth today thinks that "U" instead of "YOU" is acceptable etc....
  • Gilbert Lawrence on 13 Aug 13
     
    If you really think about it they don't really push writing in cursive anymore either. It shows how dramatic technology is affecting writing skills.
Danielle hall

Text messaging - the good, the bad, the ugly - Boston home technology | Examiner.com - 0 views

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Grammar Texting Literacy

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  • Americans sent 1 billion text messages in last December, up sharply from 253 million from the previous year.
  • Increasingly, text messaging is boosted by tie-ins with television shows such as American Idol, major league baseball and pro football.
  • Texting is eroding our children's ability to spell. Because becomes "cuz." Are you becomes "RU." Laugh out loud is now "LOL." Make no mistake, texting is really instant messaging with a wireless device and a whole new English syntax is developing. Problem is, texting is destroying proper sentence construction and turning writing into a series of fragments.
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  • The second area of concern is reckless texting ... what a distraction to look at or send a text while behind the wheel of a car. There should be a law!
  • Danielle hall on 14 Aug 13
     
    Texting is destroying grammar and proper sentence structure.
Brandon King

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 0 views

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shared by Brandon King on 13 Aug 13 - Cached
  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined,
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
    • Brandon King
      Brandon King on 16 Aug 13
       
      Basically about reading for please is thing of the past most don't do it and technology plays a big role in our lives but weakens us in terms of reading,grammar, and writing skills.
Jasmine H

Is technology harming our communication skills? - 0 views

www.northern-iowan.org/communication-skills-1.2216499

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shared by Jasmine H on 13 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • When you are constantly using abbreviations and slang in texts and online chats, it is hard to remember to use proper grammar when writing formal emails, letters or papers.  Technology can also harm our communication skills at work and in school.  It may be degrading our ability to speak publicly and write formally.  Think of how many professors or bosses have probably received a "cuz," "l8ter" or "cya" in an email. 
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