Probably you are, CCJ. Nice scold, though, coming from
a hyphen-free zone.
Hal
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On Jan 17, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
> I have just done a quick search on the use of quote marks and was
> surprised to find how to use was directed at first year college
> students
> in the USA undertaking writing courses.
>
> Ummm... is this related to grammar no longer being taught in primary
> and
> high school, as if learning how to use inverted commas is too
> intellectually taxing for a ten year old child? It has me worried
> that a
> college professor needs to teach basic grammar before anything else? I
> can understand it for journalism since the inverted pyramid is very
> strict and not generally well known but for first year writing
> students,
> I have some difficulty.
>
> I would have assumed a first year writing student for the first week's
> assignment could write a dramatic monologue in a voice not their own
> (usually the opposite sex) and for a term paper a 3,000 word essay
> using
> traditional academic footnotes and citation without needing to be told
> how to.
>
> Am I assuming too much?
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