Is Competent Copyreading a Violation of the Students' Right to Their Own Language?.

Kelly, Lou

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Publication Date: 1974

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Is Competent Copyreading a Violation of the Students' Right to Their Own Language?

Kelly, Lou

College Composition and Communication, 25, 4, 254-8, Oct 74

If we want monority students to be able to speak out effectively for their rights, we must teach them, without destroying their own voices, to use language that cannot be labeled substandard. (JH)

Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Editing, Grammar, Language Standardization, Linguistics, Social Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods

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