"Texting's Terrible Impact of Students' Writing" by Jared Broyle

Broyles, Jared. “Texting’s Terrible Impact on Student’s Writing.” 5 news, 2 March 2010. Web.     28 Nov. 2011.

In this article, Broyles touches upon how texting is negatively affecting          student’s writing. He interviews both teachers and students and gets their feedback.                       Teachers say that texting is causing students to hand in work that consists of word                 abbreviations, missing punctuations, and non-capitalized words. Students respond that                 they don’t even realize when they do these things because they are so use to doing these              things when they text. This negative viewpoint of texting can be compared to Carr’s                     negative viewpoint of the internet. Carr describes all the negative effects of the internet,                   such as how it’s depleting our concentration, how artificial intelligence is on the rise and                       we might risk turning into pancake people, and how we can no longer deep read. The                  negative effects of texting include students using word abbreviations, missing                                      punctuations, and non-capitalized words. Carr and Broyles are both concerned with                        technological advances destroying our reading and writing skills. I could use this source               in my paper by pointing out that this notion of how texting is detrimental to students is                 commonly believed. I’m attempting to prove that texting is beneficial to children’s            reading and writing skills. However, it may be helpful to display the counter argument to        mine.