Texting in schoolwork
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Above, Ashley Anderson, Rosanna Chopp, Amanda Crane and Janelle Jarvakko send text messages to their friends. The girls all agreed they believed texting has no negative effect in their schoolwork.
HOUGHTON — Remember the English language?
It’s hard to believe it still exists between the all of the “SOZs” and “LOLs,” and now, the evolution of language is leaving some students “ROTFL” and leaving teachers thinking “IDUWYM.”
These days, it’s typical for Richard Woodford, an English teacher at Houghton High School, to come across sideways smiley faces, random acronyms and incomplete phrases.
That’s because using text lingo on a day-to-day basis in writing is becoming a prevalent problem in high schools across the country.
Acronyms such as “LOL,” which stands for “laugh out loud,” and “SOZ,” short for “sorry,” are just an addition to the emoticons students use to express themselves and convey emotional content, Woodford said.
“When they do it in much of their off time, they are bound to do it in their writing too,” Woodford said of students using unnecessary acronyms in school work.
Using text lingo in formal sc
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