CAN TEXTING AFFECT YOUR ELA GRADE?!?!

"F in Grammer ? Maybe its your phone's fault" By Alessandra Ponteza this article is about how texting affects your actual writing in the real world, for college papers, job applications and just writing in general. Kids are forgetting their actual punctuation and they're getting lazy and using abbreviations and not actually writing out the words. For example they're writing "u" instead of actually writing out you. Teachers have seen it as a problem and see that cell phones as an enemy and aren't helping the kids and that the auto corrections are pretty much doing all the work, and kids aren't even proof reading their stories or papers. The author wanted us to see that we should stop using phones so much, and make an effort on improving our grammer instead of taking the easy way out, like teens usually do. Its going to get them farther in life.

For example in the article its talks about that young kids are offered jobs and they sometimes have to write a paper, well in this case "More than 2,000 applications were submitted by young people during the summer and they had mountains of misspelled words and missing punctuation, spacing mistakes and abbreviations" said the article this shows that kids don't really care, and write as if they're texting a friend and aren't actually formally writing like they should be. they don't really care enough to read it over and make sure these things don't happen, because when you write a paper like that the person that's going to hire you for the job isn't really going to care enough to read it, since you don't care enough to proof read it. In the article they also include statics from 2005 "64% of kids used informational writing styles typical of electronic communication, 50% used informal capitalization , 38% used abbreviations like "LOL", and 25% used emoticons. These were the statistics in 2005 maybe they've changed because the phones are more advanced.

In my opinion I feel like this is true because this happens to me at times where I write like I'm texting, which can effect my ELA grades at time. In my opinion they should make the kids more aware of this because us teenagers are lazy and careless I guess you can say, and we don't always proof read our things, just to get them over with and take care of it. They should also teach the kids what's the difference from texting and writing an actual essay and that you can't use the same type of writing  it can be good for when your taking notes and it's faster but for actual writing its unacceptable.