ENGL 110-64

by Janae Katz What is standard English, and how should it be taught, if it should be taught at all? Many folks have been debating this question for a while now, and for good reason. The inevitable truth about America’s society is that it is full of subtle prejudices and filled with premade boxes for […]

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Audience: The Class The English language and the idea of Standard English is very complex and difficult to grasp consistently. The United States is considered a “Melting Pot” for being the home to so many different cultures, races, and religions. Because of this, there are so many variations and ways in which people choose to […]

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Classmates, In today’s modern world the language that people are using when they are speaking is quickly evolving and some people might argue that as speech is evolving so should the way we write. However, there are some people who believe that even though the way we speak is evolving we should still continue to […]

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By. Victoria Lewis               For centuries, the methods of teaching general English have been highly criticized by scholars,writers, professors, etc. This being the reason why many tend to argue and criticize each other’s teaching methods and writing. A famous example of this would be Vershawn Ashanti Young’s famous article […]

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Classmates When it comes to teaching writing in school, there were always certain rules that we had to follow. We weren’t allowed to use words like “I”, “you”, or “we”, and we weren’t allowed to use apostrophes. This not only made writing very difficult, but it also made students seem robotic, we all sounded the […]

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Why Make Writing Sound Formal in America? One of the most important lessons taught at an early age in life is learning how to read and write. Throughout America not only is everyone taught differently but raised from different environments and regions causing our speech to gravitate away from being informal. We are expected to […]

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By: Samuel Levis Classmates English Education: Grading Many students in college and even high school struggle with grades, dreaded grades that almost everyone dislikes. They are determining factors when it comes to have good knowledge of a subject such as Math and English. Speaking of English, this language as many sorts of varieties according to […]

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By: Devin Lamontagne In modern times with social media and new slang popping up everywhere, it can be difficult for some to separate vocabulary learned on TikTok and from peers versus the vocabulary learned in school. “Should people be allowed to write as they speak?” In my opinion, I don’t think that people should be […]

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