This article was written by Michaela Cullington. She started off this article stating how texting was coming apart of our everyday lives. Afterwards, she gives a brief definition on what texting is and her own definition. She states that some believe by using these abbreviations will be hindering the writing abilities of students and how others argue that texting has positive aspects on writing.…
In “Does Texting Affect Writing?” by Michaela Cullington, Cullington states that texting will not influence the student’s writing skill (pg136). Nowadays, texting becomes an essential part of people’s everyday life. Some people think texting will have negative impacts on students by weakening their ability to write. On the other hand, some people argue that texting will perform positive effects on the student.…
CELL PHONES AND TEXTING is a distraction to you, your neighbors and to the lecturer. Please…
In her essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” Michaela Cullington addresses the issue of text messaging possible causing poor communication skills and the use of textspeak, abbreviations used during text messaging such as “LOL” and “g2g,” in students’ formal writing. Cullington argues that text messaging does not have an effect on students’ formal writing. She addresses the opposition directly, even citing credible sources. However, she also cites credible sources with better information to support her point, and even conducts an experiment of her own. All of these factors combine and work well together to form a well-executed argument within Cullington’s essay.…
The second reason that students shouldn't be allowed to use cell phones in school for education is for the sake of the teachers, a teacher should not have to fight for the attention of his or her students due to technology. After twenty years of teaching history and ESL for Lowell High School, Miriam Morgenstern is quitting her job for multiple reasons. One of Morgenstern’s reasons for quitting is her students and their cell phones, she explains her frustration, “The texting, tweeting, and snapchatting during class time are ‘an incredible distraction, and makes it much more difficult to teach,’ she said. ‘It’s pretty hard to compete with a very funny YouTube video.’” It is unacceptable that students are using their phones while the teacher…
I agree with Jesse Scaccia of “Hang it Up” because the definition cell phone, distractions and classrooms and my own personal experience which is that if you text in class you will not be able to concrete on what is being taught and will not be able to pass test and it will take away attention of others that are trying to pay attention.…
In Roni Caryn Robin’s article “Compulsive Texting Takes Toll on Teenagers.” From the October 2015 New York Times, is about compulsive texting and how it effects our capacity to learn. Robin is generally speaking to an audience of ages 18 to 25 who are in high school or college. Her purpose is to let college students know that texting in class, at dinner, and before bed disrupts your ability to learn and focus in school. The evidence that Robin uses is through internet studies like the Psychology of Popular Media Culture and as well as opinions from psychologists themselves.…
In the article “No, kids CAN’T study while they’re texting: Research finds teenagers struggle with multitasking” by Jenny Awford states, “But new research… by Stanford University, found that 85% of young people struggle to perform simple tasks when distracted by music, phones, or email.” While doing simple tasks, it seems that young adults are distracted by technology and this why because their attention is suddenly captured by a text or notification of Facebook,Snapchat, Instagram etc. In the article, “Teen Texting Soars: Will Social Skills Suffer” by Jennifer Ludden notes, “58% of students with mobile phones say they’ve sent a text message during class.” The article clearly states that students during class are easily distracted by their phones, this of course could affect them in their grades because they missed what was being thought,showing that technology is a negative influence on…
What are the some of the effects that texting is having on the teen literacy? Text messaging has increased in popularity ever since the very first text message that was sent in the year of 1933 by a student who was working for the Nokia Corporation (Druoin and Davis 49). Centre of Science Education at Sheffield University discovered that more than ninety percent of the youth have cell phones and ninety-six percent of them use them to text. (Plester, Wood, Bell 137). The establishment of cell phones and texting has made a huge encounter on the way people communicate. Most people use their cell phones to text more than they do to make phone calls. Teenagers have observed that an average teenager sends a hundred textsin a day and 3,033 in s month. (Cingel and Sundar 310). Teens have the highest numbers of sent texts and the number is rapidly going up. Studies have shown that this form of communication is destroying the way people read,…
Text messaging has become an integral part of our lives; it has developed very rapidly throughout the world. With the uprising of new forms of communication that technology has introduced comes a debate on what effect these new digital mediums have on literacy. Text messaging is fastly becoming a primary form of communication for various numbers of people around the world. The mainstream media claims that the short hand and abbreviated characteristics of text messaging are making children lazy, not forcing them to use the proper grammar they learn in school. Feldman states that texting has become so popular that many have taken to calling today’s teens “generation text.” Texting is defined as the use of abbreviations and other techniques to craft messages sent through the cell phone. Texting does not always follow the standard rules of English grammar, nor usual word spellings. Literacy refers to more than reading and writing printed language. Plester, Wood and Joshi define literacy as the ability to decode information in various orthographic formats, including digital media, to make meaning from it, and to encode information into those formats to communicate ideas to others (3).…
Texting in class is a very touchy subject, and can be argued from many different aspects. One of the main things though, is that texting in class would not be disruptive just for the student texting, but also to the students sitting around the student that is doing the texting. In this today’s generation, everywhere around us people of all ages and cultures circle around their cell phones in everything they do. Whether we are walking down the road, in the grocery style, in class, or even much dangerously, in driving, cell phones have grown to be a very vital part of our everyday lives. However, when it comes to cell phones and texting in the classroom, a very controversial answer is given between teachers and students. Students say they don’t see a problem with texting in class, teachers on the other hand, think otherwise. This is where the problem begins; teachers hold a very persuasive argument about why students shouldn’t be allowed to text in class or even use the cell phone at all. Students on the other hand, can also put up a somewhat reasonable argument as well.…
The reason this would be propitious is if a student would need to contact a parent to make sure they’re getting picked up from practice, a game, or school and use it accordingly. The school board would probably disagree because if they are texting other students that are in class it could be a distraction and they can contact their parents through email. Furthermore, not all parents check their emails right away or at all, and texting other students while in class can be taken care of consequently.…
According to Clayson and Haley (2013) in the article “The Impact of Texting on Students in Marketing Classes,” texting during classes has become a complex problem due to the fact that many professors feel that as a discourteous and unprofessional. As a result, teachers have been implanting diversities rules to try to control the texting because understanding a class means to be concentrated in physically and mentally in order to get quickly and clearly the information. The use of cell phones make students be decentralized during classes. The authors stated through a poll for students at two universities who refuse to be addicted to texting that almost all send or receive text during the semester and text while in class even though they know…
To as a result of katie hafner’s excerpt, there is a genuine concern that texting in american teenagers is causing epidemic. This issue is said to be producing stress, confusing students when learning, affecting grades, frequently resulting in tension and sleep loss. Furthermore because increasing in texting by teenagers year by year there is clearly a problem that will not easily go away. It is important to note that texting in american teenagers is a problem that must be research to identify a…
The Oxford Union Schools’ Competition uses a format known as British Parliamentary (BP) debating. This is the format used by most university competitions for schoolchildren (it is also used by the Bristol, Cambridge and Durham Schools’ Competitions), but it is quite different from other formats, such as that used in the ESU Schools’ Mace. Speakers who have debated in other formats usually have no difficulty switching to BP, but it is important that everyone understands the format and rules of the debate. This information sheet can only give the most salient points about BP debating; if this format is new to you, we strongly recommend that you attend one of our workshops, to which all schools that enter the Oxford Union Schools’ Competition are invited.…