Summary on "Does Texting Affect Writing"

In Michaela Cullington’sarticle “Does texting affect writing?” she talks about how texting can affect peoples writing skills. She talks about both sides of the argument some people think that it has negative effects and another group of people who think it might have positive effects. She even talks about how people do not even use the whole word anymore just abbreviations to make the point of the message faster to read. Not only are teens in high school are texting but a lot of business men do it for faster communication.

There are a lot of people like doctors, parents, and teacher who are concerned for the child’s writing skills that the might be affected negatively. Texting people has made communication a lot faster then ever before. Almost everyone in the world now days is texting in the world. From teens just chatting about class or problems all the way to business men texting about plans and other important stuff. But people think that it can have negative affects on a persons writing skills such as the way the type, spell, even use words the wrong way. They say students who spend a lot of time texting can cause them to get lower scores on writing tests. Doctors, Parents, and teachers are all concerned about the students education from texting. Then their are people who say that texting can have positive affects on a persons writing skills.

People say it encourages students to practice writing for no reason or even get the confidence they need to write. It can also spark someone’s creativity and new ways to express it in writing. But in the end her researched showed that texting really does not have big time affects on someone’s writing skills. Students know the difference between texting friends on their phone and writing formally for a essayor just a normal summary. In the end texting is just a new thing to make communication easier and does not really have any affects on someone’s writing skills.