Let’s start with the delightful “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. Along with the proliferation of apostrophes where no apostrophe needs to be, we see “quotation marks” all over the place. Someone is keeping track and commenting dryly on them.
I find this one fascinating: The Book Depository Live. Watch in real time as [...]
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Beware of the following:
Lust: your sinful desire for a good grade leads you to the ever-so-tempting paper mills.
Gluttony: overindulgence in the works of others.
Greed: desire for a better grade than you deserve.
Sloth: sheer laziness either in failure to do your own thinking and writing, or thinking that you don’t need to follow instructions or [...]
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A student in my English 280 class sent me this. I love Fry and Laurie, and Stephen Fry gets the “pretentious talking head” absolutely dead-on.
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Just in time for the beginning of term comes this post from the always amusing Little Professor.
She provides a list of notes on “Dealing with Professors” that any teacher will find all-too-familiar. Students: take note!
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