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Summary Assignment
Student’s Name
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Source Summary Prewriting
Theme: Wellness
Topic: Texting and Driving
Title: Texting while driving: Psychosocial influences on young people's texting intentions and
behavior
Intended audience: The audience that are intended to be addressed is the general public
comprising of teens and adults. According to Nemme and White (2010), the youth and young
adults cannot put their phones away even for a few seconds. The publication appeals to them
based on facts on the effects that has been caused by the action. An understanding is needed for
the perspective of the target audience so that it can make a convincing appeal. In addition the
authors believe that personal experience will help in understand the perspective. An emotional
appeal in my opinion would help to motivate my target audience to understand why they need to
stop texting while driving. This would motivate them to change their ways. The paper would be
an emotional appeal that will be based on facts. A conventional voice would be used for the
paper. The publication therefore supports the topic of discussion.
Writer background: the writers are Heide Nemme and Mary M. Catherine. Heide Nemme
committed herself to the production of a high quality innovative outcomes and hence has gained
trust from clients. Mary on the other hand worked across industries in commercial and non-
commercial sections. She has been able to organize the innovation of development, and offered
services such as coaching, organization guidance as well as the assessment selection and
development.
Writer’s angle: The authors have developed an argument on the effects that are faced by the
youth in the process of texting while driving. The researches have also discussed the ways that
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can be used to help in avoiding the cases of accidents as a result of texting. Nemme and White
(2010) argue that for effectiveness of the issue various parties should be included, the
Department of Transportation of the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, Automotive producers, and adolescents or any individual who write texts while
driving.
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Part 1: The one-sentence summary
Nemme and White (2010) being professionals in guidance and giving recommendations
on critical issues have discussed that texting while driving hands down is unsafe as it is a
diversion and prompts mishaps. There are numerous destructions that numerous drivers face
while driving. Multi-tasking, boisterous music, perusing headings, negative enthusiastic stretch,
and texting while driving are all basic case of destructions while driving. These cases take away
a driver's emphasis on driving. The authors continue to argue that texting while driving obliges
one to at times look at the phone and to keep stand out hand on the wheel which is an unsafe
blend. As indicated by the article, texting while driving takes away the three basic things
required for safe driving, including the hands, eyes, and focus. When one drives and text there is
a higher running to a risk.
Part 2: The one-paragraph summary
According to Nemme and White (2010) in the article, when one texts and drive they
debilitate their reaction time by eighteen percent, or the seconds it takes to miss a stop sign or the
time it could take to run a crossing point and broadside a family. One should try not to make use
of phones and drive at the same time. Whatever one needs to say something it is good that one
can hold up. The article continues to make an intense message of the threats of texting while
driving. Texting while driving weakens reaction time, the time it could take to keep a mishap
from happening. The article is a convincing and it concurs on the perils of texting while driving.
Part 3: The multiple-paragraph summary
Texting while driving is frequently contrasted with drinking and driving. This is because
driving while texting can be as perilous as driving under the influence of alcohol. Nemme and
White (2010) show that texting while driving impedes a driver's response significantly more than
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driving under the influence of alcohol. One is four times more prone to get into a mischance on
the off chance that you are drinking and driving and eight times more inclined to get into a
mishap on the off chance that you are texting while driving. These cases are amazing and mind
blowing. Texting and driving is more risky than plastered driving. The study contrasted the
distance that one uses to a stop while driving 35 mph to an unhampered driver. The outcomes
were concluded to be that texting driver ventures a quarter century feet before halting while a
plastered driver voyages four more feet before ceasing.
Texting while driving is a greater destruction than when one is drunk driving as showed
by the study. These outcomes are disturbing as it shows that one is in an ideal situation driving
plastered than texting and driving. Texting while driving could be seen as a dependence.
Individuals know the risks that accompany texting while driving yet they proceed to text and
drive. The same is valid with cigarette smokers. They know tobacco smoke expands the shot of
creating lung cancer yet they keep on smoking. The reason is they are dependent simply like the
individuals who text and drive. It is difficult to oppose texting while driving as it is anything but
difficult to escape with. The youth are therefore always affected by the vice and the laws should
be to restrict the action.
The best solution for capping the problem is to prevent messaging in any case while
driving. This is the most secure and most reasonable technique of ensuring that the drivers as
well as the passengers are safe. This is less demanding said than done however as drivers will be
enticed to peruse through instant messages and reply to them while driving. Albeit numerous
states have passed laws to ensure that drivers do not text while driving and have expanded
authorization to these laws it is still sensibly simple to escape with texting and driving due to the
factors caused by the drivers. In regards to this, it is hard for cops to tell whether a driver is
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messaging while driving since drivers can hide their phones from the law enforcement while
texting.
Part 4: Your reaction
I agree with the authors advocating for the safety in the roads while pone is driving by
avoiding texting while driving. The main points are also argued in a well structure format. I
therefore agree with the way that the authors argue the main points. Since the intended audience
are the youth the information is meets the need since there is an understanding on the importance
of ensuring that one is safe in the road by avoiding texting while driving. In addition, I trust the
authors due to the background information about them. Having been councilors in different field
and having the experience in giving recommendations on the human affairs, I trust the
information that they are delivering.
From the information in the article I can be able to feel contentment and anger, this is
because although accident occur, there are ways that people can avoid them. The document is
structured with headings and data on the percentages of the effects of texting while driving have
been.
Part 5: References
Nemme, H. E., & White, K. M. (2010). Texting while driving: Psychosocial influences on young
people's texting intentions and behavior. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 42(4), 1257-
1265.
