OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.

[Amy West]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I was planning on having the kids work as teams and write a
dictionary entry (pron, ety, part of speech, definition) for a term
used in their community and then write about how they did that, how
they use it, and its significance within that community, etc.

---Amy West

>Date:    Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:34:04 -0600
>From:    Patti Kurtz <tb5fab at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
>
>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 o=
>n
>language.  But a good reader is also Language Awareness by Escholtz, Rosa
>and Clark.
>
>Patti Kurtz
>MInot State University

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