The bad idea being proposed by Christopher justice is using texting as a communicative practice. The author believes this is a bad idea because texting is ruining literacy skills. Many people use graphic, abbreviated, and non-conventional languages in text messages, not exercising literary skills correctly. Christopher states that texting is causing students to write poorly and making them lazy. For example, students text abbreviations such as “OMG” instead of “oh my gosh” and this makes them intellectually lazy people. David Crystal, an author, stated that texting and emailing fogs your brain like cannabis, does not influence literacy skills, and deprived children of sleep. Justice agrees with David’s statements. The author also provides many counterclaims. He states that taxing can encourage people to utilize various modes of communication. Some of these modes of communication can be images, music, weblinks, and photographs. I agree with this because it can further enhance the skill of being able to connect certain topics to their personal life. I chose this piece to see if technology was ruining my literary skills. After reading the article I do realize that technology is affecting my grammar. When I’m doing an essay, I tend to use abbreviations. For example, in the personal essay that we just finished doing, I was tempted to use “omg” or “lol”. Then I realized that it’s informal to use in an essay. Christopher justice continues by stating positive correlations between texting and people’s literacy skills. He states that researchers concluded texting often informal style allows the textures to engage in more creative uses of language. I would disagree with this because the way some people text can be creative but I don’t see how a message being informal can help you in your academics. I believe that texting can help with speech because when you’re texting someone it’s meant to sound like you’re talking to that person. Christopher further explains that we shouldn’t see texting as a way to replace literature but to enhance writing skills. In my opinion, we should encourage students to not use the skills they use when they’re texting if it’s informal. Comparing how you text versus how you write in literature can be useful to see the strengths and weaknesses.
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I can understand what you are saying about technology being affecting your grammar because I have had a similar experience and I realize that using abbreviations in text message communication often makes me forget the correct spelling of a word at times, and I agree with you that texting can help with speech because it is also a form of communication. Texting is not inferior to face-to-face communication and I think sometimes people may speak more and longer in text messages, which means they are more engaged. I think if we standardize this habit, we can avoid using informal abbreviations in our writing, as long as we are clear about which words can be used and which words should not be abbreviated.
Hello Deisi, It was very interesting reading your discussion about texting ruining literacy skills. I also like how you talked about claims and counterclaims the author made. I read a chapter from the same section called Texting Ruins Students Grammar by Scott Warnock and from what I read from this chapter author Warnock say’s there has been multiple research done from different age groups to show no evidence to any connection to texting and how we write. I think maybe If we conduct another recent research today there could be a change and might show a connection since you also experience a connection. There could be other students who feel the same way too and conducting this research might help change our education system.