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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