Nobody will be surprised to hear a distant voice from the
Maritimes cheering at this sentence:
"However, our data shows that instructors across the university
rarely ask students to write for any audience other than the
instructor."
I also, of course, made agreeing noices at this comment: "It is
a complex topic, but the upshot is that teaching traditional
school grammar outside the context of student composing doesn't
lead to better quality written products."
(I guess it does lead to people knowing that, um, "data" was a
plural noun in Latin . . . )
-- Russ
> A short piece i wrote for University Affairs on student writing
> came online today:
>
> http://www.universityaffairs.ca/Article.aspx?id=112086
>
> The comment area at the bottom might be a good way to extend or
> elaborate this conversation.
>
> Roger Graves
> --
> Roger Graves
> Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
> University of Alberta
> www.ualberta.ca/~graves1
>
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