Michaela Cullington

Technology has changed our lives in the past twenty years. In the past, if we wanted to have a conversation with someone it was needed to find the person and go to the place they were to talk to them. However, today all it is need a cellphone, and you can talk with three or four even five people at the same time. Nowadays there are many ways to communicate to someone, and one of the most important ways is thru text messaging.

This affects almost all of us, especially young adolescents. There is no doubt that text messaging is the best way to reach a person and communicate with them without the necessity of speak or call multiple times until the person answers the phone. In many ways, it is easy to type a message to express yourself to someone then call and explain in your word, simply by the fact that in text many people use abbreviation to describe their necessities in a short and objective way to someone.

Many parents and teachers are concern about the way student text because of abbreviations and short ways they use. In the article wrote by Michaela Cullington, “Texting and Writing” it is very clear how the author explains the concerns of parents and teachers over the “text speak” issue and how it effects the formal writing of adolescents and college students. The author used this article in a very effective way to reach the parents and teachers of those young adolescents by describing and showing the research made by the author himself to prove how “text speak” has no effect on students formal writing.

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This topic is very controversial; the reason is that many people believe abbreviation in text reduces the capability of the student to write in the formal language and the other hand many types of research and teachers disagree with that theory stating that text messaging improves students’ writing. There are numerous statements of different writers supporting the idea of the good side of text language. A book wrote by …

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