Courtney Anttila's 'Txting: H8 Or Luv It'

Introduction Love it or hate it, texting is constant facet of today’s society. Texting is usually consider the bane of all English teachers out there. Everywhere, English teachers complain that texting lower’s the child’s English skills, that cheating is running amuck, and texting is causing grammar and spelling errors every turn. Throughout “TXTing: h8 or luv it,” Courtney Anttila targets the common English teacher’s concern on texting, and providing a positive spin to texting.

Summery

In “TXTing: h8 or luv it,” Courtney Anttila addresses the concerns of English instructors concerning texting. Anttila explores how texting effects the child’s reading and writing abilities, how children will use any creative ways to cheat, and how texting

The three arguments are gear towards how texting effects the child’s English abilities and academics. Obviously, the essay is catering towards English teachers and arguments they would deem important. All English teachers would want to know how texting effects the child’s reading and writing skills, two key skills an English teacher would want to pass on. All English teachers would want to prevent cheating in a classroom setting. All English teachers would want a child to be comfortable to writing. These arguments are gear towards the concerns of an English teacher, shows that Miss. Anttila was targeting predominately English

What’s more, she misses out on a great opportunity to argue a unique prospective on texting that has not been address before. In “TXTing: h8 or luv it,” the author informs the reader that there is a positive correlation between texting and a child’s reading and writing abilities (104). This leads to two assumption: texting increases the child’s reading and writing abilities or high reading and writing abilities increases the child’s texting skills. The first assumption is essentially weak. A lot of people would express doubt in this argument, there is not a lot of evidence supporting it, and it is not memorable. The second assumption could be explore in a new and unique way: relating professional shorthand to texting. Many professionals, such as doctors or military officers, uses a variation of shorthand and acronyms in their professional writing and verbal vocabulary. If the author releases texting to professional shorthand and that one needs a good foundation and understanding of the English language to develop one’s own shortcuts, then, and only then, her reason would be strong and