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    The document discusses how social media is negatively impacting literacy. As people get used to abbreviating words and using improper grammar on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, they start making the same mistakes in their writing for school and work. The author realized this was happening to them and their peers as well. They argue this is an epidemic where casual social media writing is eroding people's ability to spell, use proper grammar, and write formal papers. To solve this problem, the author says people need to be more thoughtful in their everyday social media writing so it does not carry over and negatively impact their writing in academic and professional settings.

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    The document discusses how social media is negatively impacting literacy. As people get used to abbreviating words and using improper grammar on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, they start making the same mistakes in their writing for school and work. The author realized this was happening to them and their peers as well. They argue this is an epidemic where casual social media writing is eroding people's ability to spell, use proper grammar, and write formal papers. To solve this problem, the author says people need to be more thoughtful in their everyday social media writing so it does not carry over and negatively impact their writing in academic and professional settings.

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    Social Media: Literacy Pest?

    Social Media: Literary Pest?


    Kendal Buckalew
    UWRT 1103
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    When I began writing short book reports in the second grade, I remember having to pull

    out my “pocket” dictionary and checking for spelling. I even had to use my dictionary or

    thesauruses if I wanted to utilize a larger or different word. As the years have progressed, I have

    realized (without even noticing in the process) that I no longer have to turn to a paperback

    dictionary to check my spelling. Rather now, I can simply Google a word that somewhat

    resembles what I am looking for...a task that takes virtually no time to complete.

    Also as I have grown older and have written many more papers since the second grade, I

    have also noticed how carelessly I might abbreviate words in my Instagram captions or reduce

    my grammatical accuracy to fit all of my characters in on twitter. While this may not seem like a

    huge defeat on a social media platform (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc.), it was

    when I began catching myself making these same mistakes on graded assignments that I realized

    there was a serious complication occurring. This problem did not only exist in my writing, but

    also in the compositions of fellow students, peers, and even family members working on college

    assignments and work reports.

    In my opinion, there is an epidemic going on in the literacy world right now, beginning

    and ending with the way people choose to write their words on social media. We slowly forget

    how to spell, forget how to use proper grammar, and even forget how to write a simple school

    paper using the writing techniques we have been engrained with since kindergarten. To cure this

    literacy disease, we must become more thoughtful in our simple day – to – day writings, which

    ultimately affect the way we write in the professional world. With more time and consciousness
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    put into these spellings and correct usage of grammar, I believe the problem will slowly begin to

    be eliminated.

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