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Jacob Bagley
Mrs. Raymond
uwRT
1103-E03
September
8,2014
Learning to Write Again
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victims of oppression, reunite long lost family members, and learn a trew language. But
inost importairtly, we can use technology to report how two a-list celebrities broke up,
and there's a disagreement over who gets the $15
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Technology will only grow, and no matter how much we resist it, technology will always
cireep its way into our lives.
Like everyone else, I have been affected by technology, and it changed me most
drasticaly in the ninth grade. It marked the first time that I would ever talk to someone
throg$h a text messag. And even though I didn't know it at ttre time, it would mark my
At first, I
eflected exactly how I would speak in person. So I would talk like this. Then i would
start to tatk like '.tris. Then i would start 2 talk like this. then i wud start2 talli like this
And so it marked the beginning of a slippery slope. All of those yeaxs of correct spelling
and sentence structure just went out the window. The more
harder it was for me to switch back to normal spelling. I had effectively stunted my
growth in grammar. I was putting all of my focus on how to write before I started texting.
At the time,Slnly used technology to write very formal papers. I was so used
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to seeing twelve-point; times new roman font appear on a screen in a perfectly strucfured
sentence. But now, thanks to texting,
informal phrases which was then plastered all over my phone's screen. Texting took
something that was once so sacred to me, and it took away it's meaning. I had typed
sentences so much that
recognized the problem, and it may or may not have been after a couple '6C's" on some
papers.
I knew I had to fix this problem by fixing my texting. With every new message, I
After having my rntiting growth stunted for so long, I was finally able catch up.
As hard as it was for me to 'orelearn", I feel as if the next generation of kids will
more difficult time. I say this because it seems like everywhere I go, there are
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preschoolers on iPhones. This kind of expoilire at such a young age could definitely be a
learning detiment to future students. It took me a long time to recover from a very brief
period of using texting lingo, and I can't believe what it would be like to fiy and break a
whole lifetime of using that o'languaga". Onthe other hand, if those kids are taught
corectly at such a young age, they could develop their writing skills at much younger
age. Everyone'so literacy
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