Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ672740
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Publication Date: 2001
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Linguistic Stigmata: Marking and Unmarking Grapholectal, Dialectal, and Historical "Errors" in Student Writing.
Campbell, Lee; Jacobs, Debra
Composition Forum, v12 n2 p87-100 2001
Presents and discusses three sets of texts that are excerpted from essays written for a second-semester, first-year composition course at a regional public university. Considers the relationship of the linguistic and sociolinguistic markedness of texts. Explores what the sociolinguistic markedness should be in the writing classroom given the linguistic markedness of a piece of text. (SG)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Language Styles, Reader Text Relationship
Composition Forum, Department of Language and Communication, 318 Kyser Hall, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA 71497.
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles
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