As English teachers, one of our responsibilities is to ensure that students master the conventions of standard edited English, so that they will not be judged in negative ways based on their formal writing. Whether it is fair or not, others (including other teachers and future employers) may judge a construction like singular they as “wrong”—as evidence that a writer is not well trained and “does not know better.”
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Big Bowl of I Was Wrong, Part I - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
What's So Hard About Reading a Cover Letter? - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views
eLearn: Case Studies - Threading, Tagging, and Higher-Order Thinking - 0 views
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Where does English fit in as a course in terms of lower-order and higher-order thinking?
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In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to. While this particular item is much longer than the essays that will be provided, students can still attempt to outline and summarize portions as practice for the final exam.
Singular 'They': a Footnote - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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I tell students that they are welcome to use singular they in writing for my class, but they should footnote it the first time they use it and in the footnote explain their rationale for using singular they.
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A fundamental goal of writing instruction, including instruction in grammar and style, is to encourage students to be highly aware of the decisions they are making as writers, from the level of the word, phrase, and sentence to the terrain of the paragraph and essay as a whole.
Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting A's on papers written the night before to getting A's and making the difficult process look effortless.
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I had a colleague who had a poster in his dining room with Samuel Beckett's "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." We may tell ourselves that, but we don't tell our students. Maybe we should post it in our classrooms, not our dining rooms.
Dinging for 'Grammatical Errors' - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
Legal and Illegal Commas - Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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In the optional cases there are heavy punctuators, who use more commas, and light punctuators, who use fewer. Take clause-initial adjuncts, for example. A light punctuator would use [2a] where a heavy punctuator would use [2b].
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