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All grammar and style advice should be funny
Fake APStylebook posts style advice for writing – the site makes me laugh consistently and sometimes I agree with their point. Sometimes it’s bogus – but generally funny. attached is a screengrab from what I found worthy of retweeting (BTW:…
Re: Students’ Right to Their Own Language
Don’t worry about taking the wrong position on this topic. I’ve argued both sides. In graduate seminars in Education, they teach that educators struggle to balance 3 needs or demands: the student, the society and the curriculum. No one can…
What’s been threatening my sleep
Just a few blocks down the street from me – on my daily route to and from work – something huge and bad has happened within the last 72 hours. At least 3 agencies, including state and federal (ATF, Animal…
Is this funny?
Passive voice
When I speak of excessive use of passive voice (or passive verbs) I refer to the over use of “to be” verbs: is, are, was, were, be, being, been and am. Passive verbs are to writing what salt is to…
Gen 1.5
On a surprising number of Comp 1 papers this week, I find myself writing about the Gen 1.5 experience and how excited I am to have students with first-hand knowledge. This could be an topic for the SRTOL paper. Generation…
Superbowl, gender diversity and the SRTOL paper
Absenteeism was up for my 2 classes on Monday. Some research shows this may be caused by the Superbowl. See a scholarly journal here, or see a more news magazine article here. It could also have been the weather. Maybe…
Most Basic MLA format.
It starts with the heading (yourname/prof’s name/class name/date) followed by the title – always a title then the body: all double-spaced with no extra hard returns (empty lines) stuck anywhere. Look at the sample student paper on page 41 on…
Response to Comp 2 literacy reflection.
This term’s Literacy Reflections impress me. We have some bright and thoughtful classmates. I’d like to note that for the first time in my almost-2-decade career in higher ed. about 90% of the class got the MLA heading right! What…