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Discussion

Topic

T

he phrase

t

ext comprehension

is probab

ly a little ambiguous. When I read the title I

think of understanding a body

of

language in print like a textbook. Do you share my

understanding or does it mean something entirely different

for

you?

Well l

et’s see how

our

discussion goes.

Text messaging

i

s an interesting phenomenon. In

one sense you

are

limited in the number of characters that can be sent in a

single text

message

, so many have developed different conventions and shortcuts

(e.g., emojis,

abbreviations, etc)

to convey more information in a t

ext (though I have started to notice

that with most people having unlimited texting that they will just send multiple texts that

individually have nowhere near the character limit).

However, sometime

s

“comprehension” of such messages is affected.

Y

our

cha

pter activity

is to create an experi

ment (

you

DO NOT

actually need to conduct

the experiment

, but can to really impress me

) that tests some aspect of

text

comprehension

using

text

messag

ing

.

Please do not propose a replication of a previous

study.

The

parameters

for your experiment

are wide open

(

except for the variable of

Age

–

do

NOT use AGE as a variable

)

.

The best experiments (as determined by me)

will earn 2x the credit normally earned. That is, there may be extra credit available

beyond a single student. So be creative, precise

,

and

clear

regarding your experiment and

ensure your submission is

well written.