English Language Unit 1‚ Assessment Task 2: Report – Language in Urban Environments Written Mode Introduction Communication is a tool with which we exercise our influence on others‚ bring out changes in our and others’ attitudes‚ motivate the people around us and establish and maintain relationships with them. Communication forms a major part of our life and is a social activity. This social activity is pursued verbally through speech‚ reading and writing or non-verbally through body language. The
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Professor Michael Mannion English 12 A 27 October 2013 Is Texting Ruining The English Language? In this weeks video John McWhorter talks about texting. John studies how language has evolved -- and will evolve -- with social‚ historical and technological developments‚ in addition to studying and writing about race in America. He argues that we always hear texting is a negative decline or fall in serious literature or writing ability. That texting ruins someone’s ability to write or speak in a grammatically
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Written and Spoken English Language The English language consists both of written and spoken features. Until recently‚ items and structures most typically found in spoken language have not been fully described. Most grammars of English have had a bias towards the written language. They are many differences between spoken and written English. Text A and B show written and spoken versions of an account of a days activities. Text A is a written account of these activities‚ while Text B is a
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THE EFFECTS OF TEXTING ON LITERACY: Is it corrupting language? 1.0 INTRODUCTION What’s SMS? SMS first appeared in GSM in about 1991. SMS later appeared in CDMA and TDMA networks. Mobile Origination (MO) - a key feature of SMS‚ allowing the user to originate SMS messages from the handset - has only became available to non-GSM users in 2000. Ask a kid anywhere in the world‚ he or she would tell it is form of talking to another person(s)‚ with a cell phone using letters and not words. SMS means
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said “Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts‚ but then again‚ do you think about those things when you talk?” McWhorter makes a vital point at the end of his quote. He states that people generally do not think about adhering to proper grammar rules when they talk‚ so naturally people do not consider utilizing them while texting‚ which is essentially talking in written form. As a result of people becoming adjusted to texting as they
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Isaiah Lynch Entrepreneurship 11/14/2013 Business Environment If I would bring my product into the US market‚ it would be very successful. The market value of my product will be very good. Social status of my product will be very positive; people will be very active in buying my product because it would be popular among people. My product will also help people save money‚ instead of spending it on batteries and replacement controllers. Features and Benefits My product should be
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Rationale In class we learned about how forms of media use various devices when presenting news or information in order to lure the audience in‚ maintain readers’ attentions‚ or convince the audience. In this case‚ I will be exploring magazines and their different ways of providing celebrity news. Tabloid magazines‚ such as National Enquirer and Star‚ highly exaggerate facts and cite unreliable or unknown sources. Tabloids also use the idea of giving information that is confidential to make the
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purpose is to text other people‚ yet texting can have negative impacts on a person’s life. Texting can be dreadful for a person in his or her day to day life due to countless reasons. Some of the reasons are: the slangs and acronyms‚ incorrect use of grammar‚ and no sense of proper information being sent in the text message. A person should not use these texting criteria in his or her formal writing. Initially‚ slangs and acronyms are very commonly used while texting. It is important to use the slangs
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activities‚ Such as communicating with friends. Texting‚ a revolutionary tool‚ has enabled people to minimize the time needed by the means of communication i.e. a phone call. However texting has come under fire for education for its potential to ruin our language. Texting should be seen‚ by educators‚ for its potential to enable students to experience and manipulate the English language to help you enhance versatility‚ fluency‚ and communicative skills. Texting provides many advantages‚ such as people
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culprit — texting while driving. While captaining her Chevrolet Lumina‚ Brittany decided to text her mother‚ distracting her from the road ahead. Instead of hitting the send button‚ Brittany’s life hit the end button‚ as she drove off an embankment‚ went airborne‚ and smashed into a utility pole (Friedman‚ pars. 2-4). Stories like Brittany’s raise questions over whether or not texting while driving should be banned. Nowadays it is growing exceedingly common to see drivers using the texting application
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