Texting and Writing

Cullington, a speech pathology major, wrote the Texting and Writing article in Dr. Laurie McMillan’s first-year composition course at Maywood University. Cullington argued in her article whether texting affect the way student write or not. Cullington did a lot of research to make her argument more stronger she did surveys and asked high school student and college students several question and she also asked some teacher their opinion she found out a big different between the teacher perspective and the student. Cullington used evidence from source like USA today, Jacquie Ream and Naomi Baron whom all agree that texting has a negative effect on academic writing. Jacquie Ream was a teacher and author of K.I.S.S.-Keep it Short and Simple. In this book she wrote, “We have a whole generation being raised without communication skills.” Cullington in the end found out that text does not affect the school writing skills.  

According to Cullington research, some teachers think texting affect the student writing skills some teachers says “Texting may be fun and time saving with friends, but at affect the way student write in school.” Teachers also say school papers should have correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. Textspeak does not require correct spelling, many smart phones will autocorrect the spelling, or the writer brevis the words. Also grammar is not necessary to use while texting because text messages should be short. For all of that reason and more most of the teachers thing texting affect the way student write.

After reading Cullington article about texting and writing. I agree with her that text do not affect the way student write. I myself text and chat with my friends all day long, I also use texting during my business activities, so texting is part of our life but by the time we get to writing we do not use the same writing strategies we are using while we texting. Texting also help student to become a good writer somewhat because I think those student who text to much write more than those student who don’t text because their brain got use to come up with ideas and write quickly.