The impact of texting on undergraduate students’ formal writing: Discourse analysis of Cypriot undergraduate students’ writing in an asynchronous CMC

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The impact of texting on undergraduate students’ formal writing: Discourse analysis of Cypriot undergraduate students’ writing in an asynchronous CMC

This paper presents a unique study on the potential impact that the use of texting has on the writing skills of Cypriot undergraduate students. The examination of their writing was based on a writing scenario in an asynchronous Computermediated communication (CMC) system, aiming to find out the writ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Christoforou, Photini
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	texting; Computer-mediated communication; CMC; Greeklish
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26988/

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