Vanessa Avina
Vanessa AvinaNegative Impact of TextingRough Draft
Students who are texting/instant messaging could be hurting the way they are write and talk just by using slang spelling words like Lol, yr and tgif for example. Texting/Instant messaging is when two people are communicating by telephone or computer. When they are writing someone, he or she are writing in what is considered not proper English writing. They are spelling words that are spelled on way like “u” and not you. Some might forget to put a period in place or a comma to seperarte their sentences. Young students are getting in the habit of writing in lingo form and not writing in good english form. They seem to forget how to apply their other writing skills that they have learned. Some are still writing in text messaging form when doing an assignment such as homework or classwork. Slang words that a person would say or write to a friend are showing up in papers. Some still are just not switching from lingo form to regular writing. English professors are here to help teach how to write a in a proper fashion. They help by showing how to write a proper sentence, where to put your punctuation and other things. A student who needs to take an English class must take the English placement test first. This will determine where you will start. A student could start a English 21 or 28 depending on how a person does. Students in those classes are learning from the bottom up. Once in English 101, a student should know how to put sentences together and spell correctly. -More- Some of the common errors that he notices are run-on sentence, a lack of sentence structure and random capitalization of letters. Richard Follett said “only 11 percent of go straight to 101”. The skills that a student learns in previous levels should stay with a student. It might be a sign why so few don’t go straight to English 101. Young students who are texting, according to one professor, it is having an effect on their writing skills but for Beatric Negulescu, a Pierce College student, she says “No, it doesn’t.” She says she is able to set the two apart when she writes but also she says she understands why it is confusing to people. She admits that she texts and some of the texting lingo she uses are “u” for you, lol for laugh out loud and “k” for ok. A shared view about texting/instant messaging lingo and the possible impact that can have comes from Auri Herrera, a Pierce student, who shares a mix both both the other views. Auri says texting is a quicker way to say something in a message. She also says she tries to keep the two seperate plus “It doesn’t look good in a essay” Auri says of texting lingo that students use when writing. She says she doesn’t think texting is hurting the English language but said “Some people might lose touch because they text so much”. The possible impact that texting could have on a students writing was stated by Richard Follett. A student writing will start to suffer due to the effects of texting. A person is so use to that style of writing that a person just forgets to switch to the regular way of writing. It is easy to write short hand when they are in a hurry of writing a friend an e-mail that way. A person can spell words like you, ok and you are in texting lingo when texting or instant messaging because it is a sense of comfort to not have to always write proper or put in correct punctuation. A habit of texting so much and not remembering proper writing habits could hurt when it comes to a job. A young student entering the work force wants to always make a good impression. For starters a good e-mail address is a start. The boss, he or she, doesn’t wat an address that has vulger language or has sexual content or just plain silly. When writing or sending letter, make sure it doesn’t have any lingo words because that is showing a lack of professional behavior and no effort. Sign the letter in a good fahion like signed or from for example. The attention that would be brought to your writing if it had major mistakes as such is a sign of a lack of professionalism. The English language has changed through the years. Words have changed meanings and even added some more words. The language could be easy for some people but for people who are just now learning it, they face some challenges. An example from Richard Follett who says that ESL learners who are trying to learn ,says when they here the lingos, they don’t know it is not acceptable. Texting/Instant messaging lingo it seems is the new way for students to communicate.Walking around campus, a person will notice someone texting someone. The new language that only a few will get when it is spoken. Most people will not get it and might have to explain what was spoken. All three views had different answers and had different opinions about the topic. Some might say texting lingo when written and spoken might hurt their skills in writing which it may or it might not. The debate about texting will contine for a while to see if it does really have an effect on a students writing and verbial skills. Writing should always be in a proper english writing form minus all the lingo that students are using when they are writing. The main point is that texting /instant messaging is here to stay and students need to be able to break the habit of turning in work that might be in lingo. Some students might be able to do both but some might not have that luxury of doing both like others.
