writing, technology, and teens

This article talked about formal writing and electronic writing and the impact it makes on a students writing. There are some people that are concerned about teens and their writing, they agree it is being degraded by the electronic communication, care free spelling, lax punctuation, and grammar. They put together her a national telephone survey and had focus groups to see what teens and their parents had to say about the role and impact of technological writing had on in school writing and out of school writing. The survey showed that 60% teens do not believe that communication over the phone or texting is writing and know the difference in writing and electronic communication. Teens mentioned that they did not believe that technology influenced their writing in a negative way. According to the survey some teens have used informal writing, text shortcuts, and emoticons in their school writing When it comes to genders the survey showed that 94% of black parents said that good writing skills are more important now than they were in the past, compared too only 82% of white parents. Teens are more motivated to write when they have a topic relevant and interesting topics. I don't think that this survey did the author much help just because the results were so varied and different. They do not have a clear answer on their overall question. I think the intended audience or this article would be anyone who has been questioning this topic because it goes into depth about the details, gender, race, parents, and blogging its a very interesting read. The reason they wrote this article is probably to inform readers on the way technology impacts writing.

texting and writing

Texting and writing is an article about how texting affects students formal writing. Cullington conducts her own research by surveying 7 high school and college students to get their opinion on how texting is affecting their writing. she also questioned 2 high school teachers. When she was finished with her research she discovered that students know the difference  between texting their friends and formal writing and that texting has a minimal affects on a students writing and  even though the teachers say they find text abbreviations in students formal writing. others believe that texting has a positive help for writing because they are writing all the time. In her research she found that Dennis Baron concludes that students do not use textspeak in their writing, he also says that students rarely use abbreviations in their text messages. Cullington sais that while analyzing students writing sample she found no evidence of textspeak, this contradicts suggestions that texting is having a negative influence on the writing abilities of students. However after analyzing the data they found that the results did not support their hypothesis, their study did not support the belief that texting is affecting the spelling abilities of students meaning this issue should still continue to be examined. one teacher describes texting as a "comfortable form of communication"  Derek Anderson another teacher says that "any writing is good writing".  furthermore those who favor texting in helping writing explain that practice comes the confidence and courage to try new things. I think that Cullingtons research methods were effective because she got what she needed and it matched up with Barons research. Also she had good resources by using the students actual writing samples and reviewing them for herself. In my opinion I think the intended audience for this article would be anyone interested in the topic or planning on conducting their own research on this topic.

murray

1) I would say that he really took his time into his revising and editing of his writing and did it very carefully so that it would be effective. I do not really do that well I do but I do not go into depth with it like murray does and that is probably what I would change. I do plan before I write but to the extent that he does.

3) she was surprised that so much time went into these stages of the writing process. She also learned that the 2 are very similar in many ways. she realizes that it makes sense for murray to write this way.

4) the time management for the revising and editing processes. Berkenkotter says that you should spend more time editing and revising than you do actually writing the paper.