Summary Of Wanda Williams Communication Breakdown
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In the article “Communication Breakdown”, Wanda Williams claims that new technology has many negative effects on young people. Firstly the author argues that modern communication has become concise, and people no longer spend much attention encoding every message. Williams also asserts that young people only focus on meaning, rather than writing style of the texts. Another problem is stated by Williams is a loss of academic writing skills in the academic domains at an alarming level, which can result in extinction of formal communication. Moreover the author explains that because new technology makes young people’s reading skills to be very weak, they cannot absorb the elite culture through writing records. Finally according to williams, because