Is Texting Making Us Bad Writers?

"The average American teen, you may not be shocked to discover, texts a lot: 3,339 messages per month"

 

Before Research:

Personally, I did not think that texting would help students with writing. Students can often confuse the way they text with the way they write. For example, a student could be used to saying "LOL" and accidently put it in their school work. Also many phones have auto-correct, which could be good and bad. It could be good because it shows student the correct way to spell a word, but it could be bad because the student might get used to their phone just correcting it for them.

After Research:

After doing some research and watching a speech about whether texting is good or not I found out many ideas about texting and the effect it has on writing. For example, texting is a new form of writing. It helps students brain storm and get used to saying what is on their mind, which is useful when it come to school work. "In fact, if we look at studies on texting, a different conclusion emerges: Texting increases literacy, and it improves, of all things, spelling." As stated in the previous sentence studies have changed the minds of many people about their opinion on texting. Texting helps with reading, you have to read the conversation you are having and also the words in which you are using to reply. Majority of the time when an individual is texting they will use abbreviations, this helps them to think and brainstorm because they are putting together a meaning for a word. "Why would an educator ever want to discourage kids from playing with words? The more adventurous kids are with spelling, usage, and grammar the better." It is important to look at texting as an educational tool to help children rather than a "bad thing", it's a fun way for them to spell, write sentences, and communicate their feelings and thoughts on a topic.

So before you judge texting, consider the facts that are previously stated that explain texting helps students.

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