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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep-1
Pages: 6
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Reforming Writing and Rethinking Correctness
Shafer, Gregory
English Journal, v94 n1 p66 Sep 2004
A community college teacher emphasizes the dynamic aspects of language correctness and helps his students understand that achieving correctness is not simply a matter of following a set of rules. His students write letters and speeches in which they demonstrate the relationships among language, power, purpose, and audience.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Language Attitudes, College Students, Audience Response, Letters (Correspondence), Speeches
National Council of Teachers of English, 111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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