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Source 1 
MLA Citation   
Hanes, Stephanie. "Texting while Driving: The New Drunk Driving."​ Christian Science
Monitor​, 05 Nov, 2009​, SIRS Issues Researcher​,​https://sks.sirs.com​. 
 

Main Idea: ​ Text while driving 

 
 
Evidence: ​But then, in September last year, a driver using a cellphone plowed
through a red light and slammed into Ms. Smith's mother's mini-SUV. Linda
Doyle, who'd been on her way to pick up cat food for the Central Oklahoma
Humane Society, where she was a regular volunteer, died the next morning.

Texting is a "perfect storm" of distraction, with cognitive, manual, and visual

elements, says Strayer. "And it's primarily teenagers who are doing it.

T​he driver who killed her mother was a sober, churchgoing 20-year-old who'd
never even had a speeding ticket. He had been on the phone for less than a
minute. Visibility on the road was excellent. But the police report said that when
a trooper asked him what color the traffic light had been, the distraught young
man responded that he never saw it.

On a rainy September morning in 2006, nineteen-year-old Reggie Shaw was

driving his Chevy sport-utility vehicle to work on a scenic Utah mountain
highway. According to the driver of a pickup truck following at a distance,
Shaw’s vehicle wove back and forth across the center divide into the oncoming
lane.

 
 
Explanation of evidence: ​I chose these two pieces of evidence because 
there good examples of why people shouldn't be on there phones because 
they always get into accidents and die instead of following the rules 
and keeping their lives safe.  
 
 
Source 2 
MLA Citation ​"Teens and Texting." ​Gale Student Resources in Context​, Gale, 2016. ​Student
Resources in Context​,
link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/ORFEXE789192645/SUIC?u=elcap_hs&xid=d87ec09e. Accessed
 
  
 

Main Idea: ​Teens and texting 

 
 
Evidence: ​On average, among all teens with cell phones, males send twenty texts a day while
females send about forty. Overall, the average Hispanic teen sends slightly fewer at twenty-five
per day than thirty sent by white or African American teens.

Sexting has been considered to be a globalized social phenomenon, and

although the media have given much attention to sexting behaviors among

youth in recent years, the actual prevalence remains unknown (Agustina &

Gómez-Durán, 2012 ). Little is known about this phenomenon, in part, due to

youth taking advantage of the rapid developments in technological advances to

communicate with each other, making it difficult to study (Katzman, 2010 ).

Contemporary youth spend more time using media, up from 7 hours and 29
minutes in 1999 to 10 hours and 45 minutes in 2009, largely due to new
technology and multitasking with multiple media sources simultaneously (
Stewart & Kaye, 2012 ).

 
 
Explanation of evidence: ​My explanation of why I put this evidence 
because they good examples of why teens and students are so much on the 
devices instead of being out in the world with their families and they 
put themselves at risk while their driving and either kill themselves 
or others while texting and driving. Also I think sexting can dangerous 
too because the same time you're texting you're thinking about something 
else and that can cause accidents. I think teens spend more time on 
technology than they do worrying about what they need. 
 
 
Source 3 
 MLA Citation ​Jouvenal, Justin. "Law on Texting at the Wheel Criticized."​ Washington
Post​, 02 Sep, 2012, pp. A.1​, SIRS Issues Researcher​,​https://sks.sirs.com​. 
 
 

Main Idea: ​Law on texting at the wheel criticized. 

 
 
Evidence: ​One night in May 2011, Jason Gage, an Alexandria man driving on a
road in the Dranesville community of Fairfax County, struck and killed a college
student named Kyle Rowley.

The reason: A 2009 Virginia law makes texting while driving a minor traffic
infraction punishable by a maximum fine of $20, so texting alone could not be
proof of reckless driving.

If drivers with any presence of alcohol were considered, the death toll attributed
to alcohol use would be even higher.

 
 
Explanation of evidence: ​My explanation is that teens don't only get 
into accidents or put themselves in risk because of texting but also 
because of drinking and getting drunk and going and driving and 
texting their eyes aren't focused on the road. I don't think that texting 
should be allowed at all while driving because just taking your eyes off 
the road for second can cause accidents.