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But I Have Weird Beige Neighbors

Posted on: May 5, 2017 Last updated on: May 5, 2017 Written by: gdixon3
“What did you learn in school that turned out to be false?” asked a recent Redditor.  One of the response threads by u/KhalilRavana took up the “I before E except after C” chestnut.  This post title poked fun at that,…
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Oxford commas

Posted on: August 6, 2012 Last updated on: August 6, 2012 Written by: gdixon3
I’m on record as being ambivalent about the oxford comma, but I’ve come across a couple good cartoons on the subject lately. and explanation of the other comma:
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The Relevance of Composition class

Posted on: July 26, 2012 Last updated on: July 26, 2012 Written by: gdixon3
Yet another business person on the importance of writing “correctly” to hiring and working in the real world published in the Harvard Business Review.  I tell students every year the LJW and the KC Star post similar letters from business…
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using quotes in papers

Posted on: April 16, 2012 Last updated on: April 16, 2012 Written by: gdixon3
Quotations – and quotation marks – mean something.  In my class  and in my edublogs I’ve discussed scare quotes and why quotation marks should not be used to indicate irony  – or used merely to emphasize words.  When instructors see…
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in-text citation – ellipsis

Posted on: March 9, 2011 Last updated on: September 7, 2011 Written by: gdixon3
Ellipsis (plural ellipses) deserve some discussion. Check out the following sources: wikipedia Purdue’s online writing center the JCCC writing center on ellipsis In prose, ellipses are not generally needed at the beginning or end of a quote. The rule is…
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Semicolons and colons

Posted on: March 8, 2011 Last updated on: April 18, 2013 Written by: gdixon3
One of the punctuation issues that recurr most often involves the use of semicolons. This matters because – the way a semicolon functions – if one uses a semicolon where a comma or colon are needed, it creates a sentence…
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Scare quotes are Evil

Posted on: October 13, 2010 Last updated on: October 28, 2014 Written by: gdixon3
As written earlier I’m seeing too “many” superfluous quotes. Wikipedia calls this Scare Quotes. Avoid this. I don’t like irony conveyed through quotation marks. Use words. And scare quotes don’t work for emphasis. Serious explanation here. Check out the blog dedicated…
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word

Posted on: March 25, 2010 Last updated on: March 11, 2016 Written by: gdixon3
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