The effect of text messaging on academic writing: students' perceptions and experiences
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2025
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UMT. Lahore
Abstract
The study’s scope is specifically to explain the perception of students about the impact of text messaging on their academic writing abilities. The researcher used both qualitative and quantitative techniques, along with cross-sectional methodology, to achieve this. The research tool that was applied in the collection of data was an online questionnaire. The study’s target audience consisted of students from three Lahore institutions, while its sample consisted of both male and female graduate students. The random sampling technique was used, and the sample size was 200. An email and WhatsApp message was sent to them about the online questionnaire, which was used to gather the data. Out of the 250 that were mailed, 200 responses were received. The received data was analyzed using the Thematic analysis framework. The result provided in the current research showed that text messaging has an effect on their academic written process. The study also illuminated that through their attitudes they save time on it as provided by the participants of this study.