Blog Assignment #7

“Our society thrives upon instant communication, sending millions of text messages and instant messages (IMs) everyday.” As the author, Timothy Barranco would say our society’s form of communication around youths from his essay. “A Way With Words or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language”. The essay does not say any specific claim with reason, but it is mainly stating that; Texting and Instant Messaging should not be a main concern for students’ learning about English and language skills because it does not affect their abilities in English but helps their creativity. The counterarguments that the writer addresses are the people’s fears about the students’ degragation of English and improper use of grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and spelling. The types of evidence to support his claim are the research from different professors from different colleges stating mostly the positive affect on students about texting and a statistic result from a source about the short form of communication being a very small percentage of the data. The explanation of numerous examples to support the claim and studies make the essay persuasive enough for readers with about one or two counterarguments. The counterarguments did not even have any specific evidence pertaining to the negativity of texting to the students. There was not a strong argument within the paper between the negative and positive explanation of the topic, because the positive claiming and examples took over the whole content of the essay.