Mapping The Writing Lives of First Year College Students

A group of 2,110 college freshman were surveyed. Of the 2,110 that were surveyed, 1366 completed the survey. The survey tried to figure out how they wrote and studied what motivated them to write. A majority of the students said that texting was their most used form of writing. Only a very small few said they used email as their major form of writing. I feel this is still true if not more true, now. I text my friends. I rarely call because it takes time and the right environment where as a text can be sent at anytime. And obviously I'm not going to write them a letter and mail it to them. The only time I really use anything other than texting is to talk to my Professors. I can't text them, so email has to be the way of communication. But, most students have their email linked through their phone or maybe through a more frequently used email than their school email so in a way, it's kind of like texting. This is a good research paper to look at going into our next paper. It shows another way to write a research paper, it even points out why the answers could be a bit biased at the end.