Assignment #6 ( The Quotation Discussion)

I would like to discuss the use of quotation in the seventh paragraph of "A way With Words, or Away With words: Effct of Texting And IMing on Language" by Timothy Barranco.
The paragraph illustrates that the text usage is not permanent and the youth who used such language before prefer a more formal laguage when they go to college. To support the idea, the author provides us three quotations which come from lingustics professor and the director of freshman composition, who are both experiencing such change of the youth's habit. In my opinion, the reason why the author choose the two resources is that both of the quotations are from experts who really know well about how the subtle change is performed by teenagers using more formal language, and it is also that both of the professors are invovled in the college life and really understand the youth much better than anyone else.
Between the lines, readers can easily tell that author casts his agreement on the usage of text language. To help the readers accept wirter's idea more easily, the writer emphasises the point that even though there are many bad habbits "developed through frequent use of txt,(but) they are typically short-lived". He finds the quotation from Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor's notes, suggests that teenagers will automatically give up their bad habbits of language using when they go to colleges. They are "in favor of formal writing conventions"(Baron 31). In this way , the author perfectly finds the quotation which supports his idea that "as students grow older and become more mature, they tend to drift away from the txt they used throughout theirbyounger teen years and shift their wirting style ub a more ofrmal an dpolished direction." -Timothy Barranco
The quotatations in the seventh paragraph explains why txt language should not be reagarded as a "threat to English language." All quotations tell readers this casual, informal and even bad language habbit is going to be given up by teanagers with their transition to collge. The seventh paragraph as a part of the reason, which illustrates why the author thinks that txt language is actually not "away with words" , which is also the main idea of the essay. Form my perspective, the wirter here uses the three quotations very effectively and efficiently.



Works Cited

Baron, Naomi S. "Instant Messaging and the Future of Language." Communications of thr ACM 48.7 (July, 2005): 29-31.Academic OneFile.Wed. 25 November 2008.
Barranco, Timothy. "A Way With Words, or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language" Arak Anthology (2009): 28. Department of English, University of Delaware.