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Correlation Between Exit Examination Of Writing Proficiency Results And Freshman English Grades In Washington State Distance Learning Students, Angela M. Musto
Correlation Between Exit Examination Of Writing Proficiency Results And Freshman English Grades In Washington State Distance Learning Students, Angela M. Musto
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between Washington State undergraduate students' freshman English composition grade and their success on Old Dominion University's Exit Examination of Writing Proficiency.
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
English Faculty Publications
Assuming student discourse is prone to error, teachers have long implemented rules that ensure "safe" discourse, particularly in composition instruction. My fifth grade teacher taught me to place a comma in a sentence whenever I take a breath rather than teaching me the language of comma rules. To my dismay, many of my first-year composition students raise their hands in agreement that they too have been taught to place a comma wherever their lungs suggest. These students learn to call independent clauses a complete sentence, and to them an ellipsis is merely “dot, dot, dot.” In an attempt to reach …