Texting Affects Writing and Spelling (Essay Sample)

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Texting Affects Writing and Spelling
In this 21st century, the young generation, especially kids in schools and students in colleges keep on striking the keys of a device particularly the cell phone, the most used interactive media. They do this when walking, talking, eating and reading and even when the teacher is in front of them. Text messaging is a current development in the area of communication technology and is the most favorite activity among the young people. However, the question still stands, is texting creating a “modern problem” that is making kids lose their ability to write and spell properly? Or is this evolution of our language a positive change in our society? This paper supports that texting is a modern problem that is making kids lose their ability to write and spell properly.
An article found in USA Today explains that the world is a having a generation that is being raised without communication skills (Cullington 90). Because of the lack of communication skills, students do not write well. In the article, Ream Jacquie, a former teacher blames the use of shorthand and acronyms in text messaging as the cause of students’ inability to spell and write correctly. She also highlights that students struggle to communicate emotion in their writing because, in text messages, emotions are usually oblique smiley faces (Cullington 90). Kids only mimic the information