Friday, April 18, 2008
Writing Instruction
After our discussion on Wednesday I have concluded that while the old rubric style of grading may be outdated, or inefficient, it is a necessary evil. That is to say unless we somehow get more funding from our government for education, which is not likely to happen anytime soon. The student to instructor ration is just too high to get away from it. How then can we teach people to write in other forms besides academic styles? The internet is seen as destroying much of the proper English language, but perhaps communities will emerge where more abstract writing style are highly regarded. We'll just have to see...
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it seems there are subcultures within our overall society which do regard abstract writing. whatever genre dj spooky will fit into, for example, i believe to be a genre of abstract writing, from the conception of idea to the execution of it through the text and pictures creating the whole xperience.
I don't think the internet is destroying the "proper English language", as a linguistic major we look at all sorts of language to determine what common uses of certain words are. As long as you think in the language you have every right to change it, delete things, even add things. The reason Scot has us to blogs for academic purposes is because we are still writing, but we not necessarily in an academic format. Maybe Scot is an innovator, a pioneer, but I think the wave of 'abstract writing' in curriculum is about to crash.
I dont think that the internet is destroying the english language, it is just adding another dimension to it. It does result in slang terms that arent proper for academic writing, but these terms can be used in more creative writing. We dont really get many chances to write outside of the academic world at the university, so the internet is just providing an outlet for our creative minds to keep us sane.
I don't think the internet is destroying the English language, it's just another form of it. So much of the writing we do is done in a formal way and the internet is just a place to be informal sometimes.
note how I said "proper English language." The lack of apostrophes is one of the responses in only proof. I don't think the effect the internet has on the English language is inherently bad, but when people srt abv 2 a pnt and condensing what really does need to be written out, the English language suffers.
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