Prescriptive grammar: a set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language, usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain people think it should be used.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html
I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language. By John Humphrys, The Daily Mail
This article has different sections of how texting is changing our language in a negative way, and is explaining how disruptive it is how people are discarding the use of formal language because we are getting comfortable creating new words and shortening original words.
This is an excellent prescriptive article. Look closely at the language choices across a range of frameworks and how they make meaning for the target audience. Use terminology and link to as many aspects of the GRAPE as possible.
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