OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

  If language awareness includes an awareness of where words/expressions/etc. come from (i.e., etymology in its broadest sense), I'd be happy to provide suggestions.  Anyone interested may contact me off list.

Gerald Cohen
Research specialty: Etymology

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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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