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ERIC Number: EJ716871
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep-1
Pages: 6
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Reforming Writing and Rethinking Correctness
Shafer, Gregory
English Journal, v94 n1 p66 Sep 2004
A community college teacher emphasizes the dynamic aspects of language correctness and helps his students understand that achieving correctness is not simply a matter of following a set of rules. His students write letters and speeches in which they demonstrate the relationships among language, power, purpose, and audience.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Language Attitudes, College Students, Audience Response, Letters (Correspondence), Speeches
National Council of Teachers of English, 111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
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