Duz Txting Hurt Yr Kidz Gramr? Absolutely, a New Study Says.

The three articles by Susan Roth, Johnson Carolyn Y. and Sarah D. Sparks all touch upon the issue that raise concerns about the young generation’s academic attitudes nowadays. Firstly, the main claim in Roth’s article (Roth, 2012) is the excessive usage of abbreviations in cellphone texting, Twitter and Facebook, has slip into the academic work and erodes the literacy of the young generations. Roth argues that the word limit allowed on each message or post has forced people to shorten their sentences. Roth shows that Twitter permits only 140 characteristics per tweet; and the most common abbreviation is “u” for “you” and “idk” for “I don’t know”. Since the teenagers send texts or tweet and comment excessively on a daily basis, they tend to forget to switch back to formal language in their schoolwork. Hence, abbreviations and mistyped words begin to appear on the paperwork extensively thus, eroding the expectation in academic and professional settings. Next, the main claim in Johnson’s article (Johnson, 2008) is the popularity in cellphone text messaging shows the sign of doom in language formality. Johnson argues that, as text messaging becomes the main way of communication, language begins to slide toward informality. Evidently, the teenagers tend to violate the punctuation and capitalization rules; emoticons begin to appear on their schoolwork. A research found that 38% of students have used the abbreviation “LOL” in their work. On a contrary, Johnson also shows that a research conducted by American Speech study had contradicted her argument; that is, such abbreviations appear rarely. Another research shows that the teenagers actually wrote out the word “you” 21,491 times compared to “u”, only 2,020 times. Despite some teenagers occasionally let abbreviations slip into their academic writing, the majority tries to be sound and professional. Thus, the counterevidence indicates that the author’s argument is rather weak.

Last, the main claim in Sparks’s...