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I will be conducting my interview this Saturday, As soon as am able to post my data I will share my findings on my blog.

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  I have learned a few things I will need to improve and try and work on since completing my short analysis, which will help me with my Research Project. I hope to be able to improve all of these aspects.

• Have more focus on particular topic, rather than jumping all around
• When I quote, I need to open up the quote then explain more why I chose this particular quote.
• I want to have more headings to introduce each section
• be able to flow my paper with more a sequence 
• Stronger organization

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1.  What are the strengths your writing for the introduction?  What do you need to work on? 
What are the strengths of your writing for the review of the literature?  What do you need to work on?

2. What is the research problem identified in your introduction?  How do you point out what your research project will contribute toward resolving this "problem"?  In other words, what have you written about  the importance of your project for writing studies?

3. What have other researchers found out about your topic that is relevant to your research project?

4.  How do you connect findings from question 3 to the purpose of your project?

5.  What is your plan for finishing/revising your introduction and literature review?

6.  What feedback do you want from me?

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1. I feel like my introduction has some strengths, I do feel, though, that it can always be improved, possibly adding some additional information and what I am going to discuss, i have some difficulty getting the main idea across in the appropriate way. The literature review was a bit difficult for me, I was not sure if I did this in the correct manner. I tried to add some information that I felt was relevant to my topic, and added particular quotes followed by my explanation

2. The research problem identified in my introduction is text messaging and the affects on relationships. I point out the affects of texting on your family and friends, I have added some quotes that appear to be of importance to my topic, I will try to incorporate important ideas and problem solving that relates to my topic.

3, Other researchers have found that "initially intended for purely commercial purposes, text messaging is in fact yet another example of how the human need for social intercourse- a kind of communication imperative, bends and ultimately co-opts technology to suit its own ends" ( Thurlow & Brown )

4. I connect these findings to the idea of my topic, and how particularly my generation is completely connected to mobile devices, and in some ways cannot "function" without them. We use them to connect to the internet and to also connect to our family and friends, therefore losing that "intimate" one on one connection you would normally get simply speaking to someone face to face. 

5. I hope to add some more information to my literature review, I want to provide some more quotes and information from my resources that connect to my topic. I want to feel more confident in this aspect of my paper, then all else will hopefully fall into place as i move forward. 

6. The feedback I would like would be to be sure I am heading in the right direction, also to understand more clearly what I should take out or add to my introduction.

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Introduction and Literacy Review

Introduction

In the times we live in today we are so reliable on our cell phone as a means of connection to the outside world. Especially when it comes to text messaging, whether it is our family or friends, we always seem to be glued to our phones. With this being said I am going to explore the effects texting has on relationships, this involving family and friends, and even personal relationships.  I will discuss the negative and positive aspects of text messaging and also include other research that I have found important in regards to my subject matter. I hope to engage my subject to entertain my questions to the fullest extent that can be made, in hopes of revealing the information I need to gather to answer my questions. With the research I am conducting I hope to find what is lost in translation through texting.

Literature Review

In “Generation Txt? The sociolinguistics of young people’s text-messaging” ( Thurlow & Brown revised), one of my sources for this research project, they discuss something that I found to be quite interesting.  “Initially intended for purely commercial purposes, text-messaging is in fact yet another example of how the human need for social intercourse- a kind of ‘communication imperative’ – bends and ultimately co-opts technology to suit its own ends”. This going to show the need for text message to be used as a connection to the human race from one person to another, text messaging is a somewhat easy way to talk to someone in a quick and shorten matter, or to even avoid any type of interaction or confrontation.

  
    

“Language is always multifunctional and always dependent on context for its meaning. As such, it was not always possible to be certain of the meaning of some participants’ messages and even less so the communicative intent with which they were sent” ( Thurlow & Brown). Going along with this idea, text messaging certainly loses its meaning in translation, while you can be sending a particular text with a certain point in mind, the person on the other end may take this message in a completely different way. This is a large part of my research and what I hope to gain more knowledge of through the subject I am interviewing.