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.