Type your response in the box. Read the following writing prompt.

Email, text messages, and other forms of electronic communication allow people to share and discuss ideas no matter how far they live from one another. Write a five-paragraph essay (350 to 375 words) about how electronic forms of communication affect people’s ability to communicate.

Based on this prompt, choose a topic and explain why that topic interests you.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”