Students’ Insights about the Influence of Text Messaging on Academic Writing Skills

Abstract

The aim of present study was to find out the students’ insights about the influence of text messaging on their academic writing skills. To complete this task the researchers employed cross sectional survey and adopted both qualitative and quantitative methods. An online questionnaire was developed to collect data. The population of the study was 10 universities of Gujranwala Division and the participants were both male and female students at graduate level. The sample size was 250 and sample technique was random. The data was collected by sending online link of the questionnaire through WhatsApp and email. Out of 250, 200 responses were received. Frequency and thematic analysis techniques were employed to analyze the collected data. The findings of the present study exposed that text messaging have influence on their academic writing skills. It was also revealed by the participants that they could save time and their habits force them to use short forms of text messaging in their academic writing