Texting is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “the sending of short text messages electronically especially from one cell phone to another” (Webster 1) and even though Michaela Cullington and David Crystal both addressed how texting doesn’t affect writing, Michaela Cullington provides a more convincing argument due to the more straightforwardness of her work. In Michaela’s article “Does Texting Affect Writing” she claims “ I can confidently state that texting is not interfering with students use of standard written English and has no effect on their writing abilities” (Cullington 370). In this article, not only does she make this claim but puts in the research to back it up, and I believe more so than David Crystal does in “2b Or Not 2b”. In this article, Michaela Cullington brings up research, responds to worries about textspeak,…show more content… In fact Professor Denis Baron even found that in surveying the high school and college students… None of them believed texting abbreviations were acceptable in formal writing” (Cullington 368). Michaela Cullington shows again and again that in her research she has found no correlation to texting affecting the writing of my generation. Professor Baron even goes as far as to say that many students will “put away such childish things, and many of them had already abandoned such signs of middle-school immaturity in high school” (Cullington 368). At no point does Mr. David Crystal state this or even bring this up in his article. While I do agree with David Crystal’s points in his article “2b Or Not 2b” I don’t truly believe he has as many facts that are as point blank and good as Michaela
