Does Texting Affect Writing? By Michaela Cullington

In the article “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, author Michaela Cullington tells of her research to explore the topic of texting and writing and discover whether texting effects students’ writing or not. Michaela begins her argument by stating some of the positive and negative claims relating to texting and writing. She also tells the reader about things that have evolved and come to exist from texting, and how it relates back to how students are now writing. The author not only did research on this topic, but she also conducted her own research. The author begins her argument by defining the term “Textspeak”. Textspeak is a new language that teenagers have invented through the use of texting. Textspeak uses a multitude of acronyms, such