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Directiоns: Reаd the belоw pаssаge. Then, answer the questiоns that follow. Be an active reader! You can take notes. Is Social Media to Blame for Students’ Poor Writing Skills?1 For as long as we have had academic writing, academics have complained about the writing skills of students. Students are expected to write research papers and academic reports with a high degree of formality and professionalism. There is a practical reason for this; professional writing skills are necessary for many different types of jobs. Casual syntax, abbreviations, misspellings, and slang are tolerated only in informal settings.2 Today’s students arguably write more frequently than any previous generation. Young adults spend a significant portion of their time using electronically mediated communication, such as texting or tweeting. The informal, slang-filled style of writing often used on social media is not acceptable in professional or academic writing. Unfortunately, many students end up using casual language in their papers. Is this simply a mistake, or does it indicate some horrible distortion of one’s writing ability due to social media?3 In simple terms, the Internet does influence the way people speak and write—as does every other form of media. Language is always evolving. One of the ways speech changes is with the introduction of new vocabulary. There’s quite a lot of new vocabulary introduced through digital media. The early days of the Internet and texting produced numerous acronyms. An acronym is a lexical term for when the first letter of each word in a phrase becomes shorthand for the entire phrase. When communicating in texts and on social media, BTW, FTW, and IDK are stand-ins for “by the way,” “for the win,” and “I don’t know.”4 There are many other examples of this sort of simplification of language. Sometimes acronyms are incorporated into speech. Examples of this include ASAP and RSVP. It is less common to hear LOL, BRB, or other text-speak in speech, but it still happens, particularly among young people. Amusingly, this same phenomenon occurred decades ago. Style guides on professional writing from the 1940s and 1950s decried the overuse of acronyms like ASAP and RSVP—especially the “unnatural” sounding use of them in spoken language!5 Other new words taken directly from Internet communication include trolling, friending, unfriending, and selfies, which was the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2013. There are also entirely new phrases like I can’t even, which indicates being overwhelmed. Many new phrases come directly from Internet blogs, tweets, and videos that have gone viral. The verbal phrase to go viral is itself another example of new terminology derived from the Internet. New, clever words have always entered the English language—the speed of digital communication simply means that more of them become commonplace quickly. Digital media makes the life cycle of slang much shorter. A clever new word used to survive for a few years; now, new slang can be invented, popularized, and disappear over a few short months. 6 One study from 2013, conducted by the Pew Research Center, found that teens who use digital technologies are more likely to use informal language in school papers. Does this really mean that digital technology harms your writing skills, or does it just indicate that spending more time on social media means that you are spending less time writing papers? Students on Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites are likely writing more nowadays than people did in the past, but their ability to construct a formal sentence is not any better for it. Linguistics has a term—register—which describes the particular language used in a certain place and time. Students are getting a great deal of practice writing in the register of informal social media, but need to be more meticulous writing in a formal, academic register. 7 Another problem is that, despite what your English teachers may have told you, appropriate professional and academic English is also changing frequently. For example, Henry Fowler, one of the early 20th century’s most respected authors on the subject of English style and usage, absolutely hated the idea of using the word meticulous to mean “careful.” The proper meaning, he insisted, was “fearful,” after its French origins. Fowler went one way, while the rest of the world chose to use the word in its modern, commonly accepted form. The point is that all language changes, even the professional. Students have a broader audience than ever for their writing. Digital technologies allow students to collaborate, edit, and revise more easily than ever before. Students simply need more practice with the register of academic and professional writing. That will prove more helpful than any amount of faculty complaining.Question #1: Choose the best answer. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?