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.