On the contrary, literacy improves. The latest studies (from a team at Coventry University) have found strong positive links between the use of text language and the skills underlying success in standard English in pre-teenage children. The more abbreviations in their messages, the higher they scored on tests of reading and vocabulary
Proving that texting is not damaging the ability to communicate properly, that children are actually scoring higher on reading and vocab scores
English has had abbreviated words ever since it began to be written down. Words such as exam, vet, fridge, cox and bus are so familiar that they have effectively become new words
Texting and how its damaging the English language with individuals not using the full word, this form of writing has been around since words began to be written down
2b or not 2b?
The article discusses texting and that it's actually been around for some time, that it is breaking up the ability to form sentences and individual are breaking up words and abbreviating, which actually has been around for decades
eople seem to have swallowed whole the stories that youngsters use nothing else but abbreviations when they text, such as the reports in 2003 that a teenager had written an essay so full of textspeak that her teacher was unable to understand it.
some people just get too lazy
As a new variety of language, texting has been condemned as "textese", "slanguage", a "digital virus". According to John Sutherland of University College London, writing in this paper in 2002, it is "bleak, bald, sad shorthand. Drab shrinktalk ... Linguistically it's all pig's ear ... it masks dyslexia, poor spelling and mental laziness. Texting is penmanship for illiterates."
Texting is taking away from actually having a real conversation
Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness. Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters. You need to know that there are such things as alternative spellings
just because kids are using abbreviations or slang words does not mean they do not know the proper language or form of the word
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate.
it may not be a natural way to communicate but it can make communicating much easier
There couldn't be a better time to test Steven Johnson's theory than National TV Turnoff Week—just turn the set off till Sunday and see if you get any dumber
While I agree that not watching TV for a period of time won't make anyone dumber, I personally wouldn't be able to live without TV
But shouldn't grown men and women be trusted to judge their own dosages, just as they would decide on the number of drinks they can handle at the bar?
we definitely should be trusted to judge how much TV we watch, but some people might not be able to control themselves when binge watching, just like with alcohol.
This author of this article states that she does not agree with Steven Johnson's article "Watching TV Makes you Smarter" and claims that she didn't even understand his thesis. She believes that Johnson completely dismissed the representation of Muslim terrorists and torture in the show 24. She says that the only thing the show causes you to think about is the next episode of 24. She ends her argument by saying that we should be able to just watch whatever we want, not because it will somehow make us smarter.
This article could be useful in writing the paper by showing a different opinion other than the opinions of the authors like Steven Johnson who think that TV isn't all bad and can make us smarter in ways.
Johnson's claims for television as a tool for brain enhancement seem deeply, hilariously bogus—not unlike the graphically mesmerizing plot diagram he provides of "any episode" of Starsky and Hutch as a foil for the far fancier grid representing The Sopranos
I think we can gain a few things from TV, but I don't believe a person can get smarter from watching any type of series. TV is more of a hobby, something to do.
Are people who log on to their Facebook page really the best hope for us all?
I personally think social media is a great way to get your thoughts on certain subjects across
tools
repetition using it as a reference to social media
“We don’t serve Negroes here,”
historical and cultural
The pleasures of the open-world game are ample, complicated, and intensely private; their potency is difficult to explain, sort of like religion, of which these games become, for many, an aspartame form. Because of the freedom they grant gamers, the narrative-and mission-generating manner in which they reward exploration, and their convincing illusion of endlessness, the best open-world games tend to become leisure-time-eating viruses.
I completely agree here, this game opens up a vast world of exploration and adventure that anyone can see. You get to choose what you want to do and how you do it