ESSAY ASSIGNMENT Standardization, Expectation, and Judgment:
Based on William Deresiewicz\’s \”You Talkin\’ to Me?\”, Geoffrey Nunberg\’s \”The Decline of Grammar,\” and your own observations and experience, do some note-taking, brainstorming, and rough drafting for an essay dealing with issues of standardization, expectation, and judgment in response to language use. (Don\’t submit this early draft; this is the first week of a three-week cycle, and the actual finished essay, which will incorporate a number of related texts in addition to this week\’s readings, will be due ,,)
EADING:
Amy Benson Brown, \”On Writing Habits and Habitats\”: http://tinyurl.com/kbl7vgx
UNC, \”Reorganizing Drafts\”: http://tinyurl.com/ltg9q7u
William Deresiewicz, \”You Talkin\’ to Me?\”: http://tinyurl.com/q4eslve
Geoffrey Nunberg, \”The Decline of Grammar\”: http://tinyurl.com/nnroxkl
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