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Everyone's Right to Their Own Language.
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Kolln, Martha – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Explores the usage and grammatical agreement problems of the words "everyone" and "everybody." (HTH)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Styles, Language Usage
Metaphor, Creativity, and Technical Writing.
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Bump, Jerome – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Explores the use of metaphor and personification in the "classics" of scientific and technical writing, and the current resistance to creativity in scientific writing. Suggests familiarizing students with the role of metaphor in scientific creativity. (HTH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Styles, Language Usage, Literary Styles
The Ad Voice in Student Writing.
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Sharpe, Susan G. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Notes the prevalance of advertising language and personae in student writing. Includes exercises that evoke the advertising voice, suggesting that using these as a stepping stone to teaching advertising is preferable to a separate advertising unit. (HTH)
Descriptors: Advertising, College English, Higher Education, Language Styles
Repetition and Metaphor in the Early Stages of Composing.
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Peterson, Linda – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes some of the strategies of repetition and metaphor used by Black American novelist Richard Wright, as a model that students can adopt in their own writing, both for generating ideas and for revising them. Appendixes include various drafts of an interview statement by Wright. (HTH)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Literature, Figurative Language, Language Styles