Communication Breakdown Essay

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These days, communication methods are modernized rapidly. Although modern communication is very convenient, there are also some concerns associated with it. Wanda Wright in her article “Communication breakdown”, published in the London Telegraph, 15 August 2011 points out the negative impacts of modern communication on many important skills. The purpose of this paper is to response critically to this article. The author asserts two main negative effects of modern communication on many essential skills. The first effect claimed is of academic writing skill of young people being damaged. In addition, she also states that the art of formal communication will be lost due to overusing of slang and abbreviations. Wright states the second problem is people’s verbal and social skill might be affects negatively as well as their career. The first problem the author mentions is negative effects of modern communication on the ability to write academically. She makes a good point when she states that people tend to use slang and abbreviations due to the brief nature of modern communication. In fact, slang and abbreviation are becoming more and more common. Although using abbreviations and slang can help people save time as well make the conversation more interesting, overusing them may result in many negative impacts on academic writing skill. However, the example she gives is unpersuasive because students do not use abbreviation in communicating. In fact, taking notes in lectures might be the activity that students use abbreviations the most. Therefore, taking notes might be a major problem of damaging academic writing skill. The second problem claimed is people’s verbal and social skills are being negatively affected. The author is correct when assert modern communication distances people from face to face communication, which is a more comprehensive way to improve verbal as

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