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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of texting technology. The emphasis is on whether or not texting impacts traditional literacy skills. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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communication that have occurred. In the past, the average persons sphere of communication was quite restricted, generally just to those people they knew in real life, and interacted with in
their leisure time, at their jobs, or inside their homes. Distance communication was restricted to telephones and physical letters. With the widespread adoption of information technologies and the internet, however,
people now have the opportunity to communicate with a much extended sphere of individuals, through media such as email and website forums. Moreover, the nature of existing communication technologies has
also changed radically, as interpersonal communications with those individuals which one knows in real life can now take place not only through face to face interactions and telephone, but also
through written email communication, social media websites, and most recently, texting. This paper will explore the manner in which the rise of text messaging has influenced society at the individual
level, with a focus on the impact on communication and literacy. This paragraph helps the student provide an overview of texting and literacy. Concerns about texting and literacy are
quite pervasive. A 2011 study looked at the impact which a heavy use of texting technology had upon traditional literacy skills. One drawback the study noted was that "although oral
reading fluency is a commonly used measure of proficiency [in literacy], few measures of digital communicative practices exist" (Ortlieb, 2011). In other words, there is a real need for those
seeking to understand the impact which texting has had upon communication to account for alternative measurements of literacy that may differ from traditional studies. As such, the 2011 study "centers
on determining whether a relationship exists between electronic texting fluency... and oral reading fluency" (Ortlieb, 2011). Ultimately, the study determined that "text proficiency is a skill independent of other factors
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