Journal #4

The argument that Koehler is trying to prove is that texting has had a negative effect on the literacy and grammar skills of American’s youth. Koehler mostly uses logos in her argument citing two studies done on the effects of texting. I really don’t think this argument is effective. I mostly use proper English grammar when texting and double check my spelling. I don’t want people to think I’m dumb because I don’t know how to spell. She also claims to be such a grammar and proper English freak but in her writer’s memo she has a blatant typo. “We got out papers back, and after much tweaking and rewriting, you have before you the finished product I am so very proud to call my own.”(126) Obviously the word out should have been our but she failed to catch this simple error. This pretty much destroys her ethos in my opinion, she starts off her paper about proper English and grammar with a typo, how intelligent is that?