final creative project

here it is

My creative project is coming along well. I have mapped out the locations around Massachusetts that my story will take place in.  I have titled the story MAss MAyhem, obviously because it is about two people playing what could be considered a makeshift version of a riddle based game of tag--all via text messaging.  the locations include: Malden, Lynn, Rockport, Gloucester, Quincy Bay, Boston, Lowell, and Beverly.

There is a linear story.  HOWEVER, the way these "chapters" will be written, the read could, if they chose to do so, move back and forth from which ever city they desired.  The story would not lose its meaning, mainly because each city is a chapter, and each chapter includes information about the city, which is the riddle for the receiver of the text messages in the story.  The two characters have no names, just their Massachusetts area codes (617) and (978).

Txt Msg: Lingo

This is my paper on Txt lingo.

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DRAFTING THE ESSAY

I. Introduction
-Evolution of language/technology
-Text message lingo (Txt Spk) as a language
-Txt Spkrs as a subculture
-Txt Spk as a help and not a hinderance toward literacy

II. Txt Spk as a Language
-http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1547503-Txt-Spk-as-a-Lang "Nine Ideas About Language"
-Rebus Abbreviations vs. Logograms vs. Direct Address Items
-http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all

III. Txt Spkprs as a subculture --or even a culture?
-Txting The Gr8 Db8 --who texts? why do they text?
-Txting as form of expression: txt spk poetry, txt spk shakespeare, Textament
-Txting as a game: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all

IV. Help or Hinderance?
- to understand txt spk or to use it, one must already have a solid foundation of the proper uses and mechanics of the english language.
-http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO2B8PamY48&NR=1
-http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1547503-Txt-Spk-as-a-Lang "Nine Ideas About Language"

ESSAY STRUCTURE

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW7AL1O4dWqoZGRrbXJndjRfOGRrYnc0YmZk&hl=en