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How Is Text Messaging Affecting Teen Literacy - College Essays - Shambre19 - 0 views

www.studymode.com/...ng-Affecting-Teen-1667712.html sentence structure children literacy
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  • Text messaging can affect a person’s social skills, writing skills, driving skills.
  • money that people spend on phones and texting can cause financial hardship.
  • has begun to have a detrimental effect on people’s writing skills.
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  • some of their grades dropped to the spelling errors
  • writing skills have turned into sentence fragments because of the limited space that they put texts into sentence.
  • “Among the 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey emotion and 38 percent said they have used text shortcuts A lot of students’ vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy.”
  • They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they don’t have to worry about spelling.
  • Teens seem to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend with just a text message.
  • spend more time texting than to hanging out there their friends and family.
  • can prevent introverted people becoming confident.
  • Janelle Taylor on 19 Jul 14
     
    Team B's Sentence Structure slide- second source Yellow highlight- additional info Blue highlight- what was used in their slides
  • Janelle Taylor on 19 Jul 14
     
    This is not a credible source either because the site requires a membership to view the whole essay and there are no visible sources cited to a non-member.
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Text messaging and literacy | Language Debates - 0 views

languagedebates.wordpress.com/...text-messaging-and-literacy literacy sentence structure texting children
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  • Texters usually want to send messages quickly
  • shortening words or purposely misspelling for ease
  • Woronoff (2007) thinks so. He describes texting as a “habit forming menace [which] can influence kids to spell incorrectly”.
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  • ‘new language’ may replace Standard English and young people will become unable to use our language ‘properly’.
  • There has been evidence to support this claim. For example, The Daily Telegraph (2004) published an article entitled “Pupils resort to text language in GCSE exams”. It explained that some teens misspelt words and used textisms in their GCSE papers. Despite this, The Daily Telegraph then later published an article in 2011 supporting the opposite point of view. The heading read “text messaging ‘improves children’s spelling skills”.
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  • English Language undergraduates at the University of Chester (UK ) review debates and controversies in the world of English Language and Linguistics
  • Janelle Taylor on 19 Jul 14
     
    Team B's "Sentence Structure" slide Blue highlight= what they used in their slide Yellow highlight= further evidence/proof Pink highlight= direct contradiction in their article 
  • Janelle Taylor on 19 Jul 14
     
    I don't find this to be a credible source in that the site is a series of brief research essays that don't take a side on the matter. They are neither pro-text language or anti-text language and have support for both sides in the essay that Team B selected as their source.
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