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Essential Questions

During this  project I wondered about one main thing texting!! I chose this subject due to the fact that every teenager and adult text now a days. Texting is a quick way to get your point across so I chose this as my subject. I chose these questions while I was thinking about my subject:

 In texting you use words, does it help improve our literacy?

Literacy has to do with reading and writing,  why would texting impove/ disapprove it?

What if there was no texting, would the literacy of people go up or down?

How would literacy improve our texting?

Was testing scores in reading and writing improved after texting was improved?

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Annotated Bibliography #1

Sean Coughlan argues that texting actually helps improve literacy skills. He claims many studies on texting and literacy say that many people who text have their literacy skills improve. Coughlan develops this claim by first investigating all the different research studies, and also by exploring statistics. Coughlan's studies all show the same thing, which shocked most people. Lastly, the author declares that many kids literacy skills improves when they have phones on them. Sean Coughlan's purpose is to inform everyone about the benefits of texting in order to show that texting is not degrading our literacy but improving it in society.This work is significant because it proves my theory that texting actually does improve literacy.

Annotated Bibliography #2

Visual Thesaurus Staff argues that in David Crystal's new book he actually writes that texting improves literacy. They claim that basically "yes" literacy improves texting. Crystal states literacy is reading and writing, and the more you practice, the more you get better. Visual Thesaurus Staff develops this claim by first interviewing David Crystal on his view of texting and literacy, and how it improves or does not improve our literacy. Crystal states that literacy does get better when we text. Lastly, the author says that if teenagers and parents influenced this more than out literacy would go up. David Crystal's purpose is to inform people about the topic through his eyes, in order to show people that all this texting does not make us illiterate. This work is significant because it shows the view through an author's eyes, that sold many books in America today.

Annotated Bibliography #3

S Cooper, N Fawcett, and K Doonan argues that literacy is improved by texting. They make claims by using statistics, along with words. They are many statistics, charts, and many different sites. Cooper, Doonan, and Fawcett develops this claim by first developing research about spelling when using text messaging. They also tell about how their confidence rose. Cooper, Doonan, and Fawcett states that children are growing and starting to use their own languages. Lastly the author talks about the language in texting and how children have their own codes, when texting. Cooper, Doonan, and Fawcett's purpose is to inform the readers with statistics and information in order to prove the literacy is improving by texting. This work is significant because this uses charts and statistics in order to prove their points not just words.