The goal of this paper is to construct an argument using resource texts of those which are provided on an issue relating to language change in the information age. Resources need to be used, not primarily as proof texts for the positions, but as starting places to begin thinking on whichever issue you choose to write about. This paper is to be an argument. By placing your own position in conversation with these sources, you will not only use them to back up what you say or to act as foils against the position, rhetorically effective, logically sound/valid, and stylistically engaging.
For this topic, you will need to discuss how the English language is changing to reflect technological progress primarily, but not exclusively, through the internet. Newspaper opinion sections are filled with rants about how the English language is going to the dogs because of Facebook and text messaging.
Questions to consider:
How has the English language changed historically?
What are some of the features of text messaging, Facebook and Twitter updates, and emails that differ from one another and from Standard Written English?
How have blogs and other online publishing media affected reading?
What is the history of the printed book/magazine/journal?
Is there a special rhetoric for social media?
Consider the appeals, the triangle, and/or the canons or Rhetoric.
