OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.

[Patti Kurtz]

Amy and Jed and all:

I use a writing assignment that asks freshmen to describe their dialect and
to think about how their way of speaking marks them as members of a
community or group.  I use Wendy Bishop's On Writing, which has a section on
language.  But a good reader is also Language Awareness by Escholtz, Rosa
and Clark.

Patti Kurtz
MInot State University

On 1/30/06, John E. Dews <jedewsua at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Just for the record, I'd like to express my interest in this area as well!
> I'd love to hear from some of you who've been integrating language awareness
> (including dialectology) into freshman comp. (or other comp. classes). So,
> please either respond to the original query on the list, or include me in
> those off-list e-mails!! Thanks everyone -- love being a lurker here!
>     Jed Dews
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> Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
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> For the folks out there on English faculties who teach or have taught
> freshman comp. I have a query for you:
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> Having survived teaching freshman comp for the first time recently,
> I'm looking forward to taking another stab at it next fall. I'd like
> to have a good language awareness component to it and I'm thinking of
> some good assignments on that topic/theme.
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> I'm wondering if you've used and liked a particular grammar,
> rhetoric, or reader that has covered some
> linguistic/language-awareness stuff with your freshmen? I'm looking
> at using some Deborah Tannen and Dinesh D'Souza essays, but haven't
> gotten much farther than that. All the freshman comp. classes use the
> Longman Writer's Companion as the grammar handbook.
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> Feel free to reply off-list, if you like.
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> ---Amy West
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