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Suzanne Rogers

Speech to the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry) Teachers guide! - 4 views

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  • Suzanne Rogers on 23 Jun 11
     
    common core mapping project
Leslie Healey

The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...he-dark-side-of-verbs-as-nouns

shared by Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great example: interesting AP example?
  • take-away
  • take-away
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  • unders
  • e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
  • n software
  • real estate agent
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great tweet!
  • It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
  • : nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
  • nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
  • repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
  • priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
  • t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
  • instrument of manipulatio
  • instrument of manipulation,
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