Students Write the Darnedest Things: Gaffes, Goofs, Blunders and Unintended Wisdom from Actual College Papers - Softcover

Nettleton, Pamela Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1950154920 ISBN 13: 9781950154920

Verlag: The Sager Group LLC, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Pamela Hill Nettleton is a writer, editor, and professor who has taught writing at top universities for three decades. Everyone knows she loves her students. She's loved for loving her students.

 

But Lord. Their essays.

 

Sometimes she'll laugh so hard she has Earl Gray squirting out of her nose. Other times, she'll feel like weeping quietly into a handkerchief. On occasion, she spots something so egregious she's forced to give up grading for the night and head straight for the chocolate.

 

Each of the 250 quotes in this book is from a real student, submitted in an actual assignment. The punctuation, spelling, grammar, and conceptual errors are left intact as written. Most are from Nettleton's college courses; some have been provided by colleagues who have followed her hilarious posts on social media for years.

 

As it turns out, these gaffes, goofs, and blunders are excellent for use (anonymously in future classes) as a teaching aid. Seeing actual mistakes made by peers, students are often galvanized to (gasp!) reread their sentences and double-check their work, lest they end up in the next edition of Students Write the Darnedest Things.

 

In the end, Nettleton writes, "The students who made these errors of haste, naivete, inexperience, and-I'll go ahead and say it-the passing cluelessness of youth, help us all challenge our assumptions and work to express ourselves more clearly."

 

Dedicated to student writers everywhere-and especially to the teachers who read them.

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Pamela Hill Nettleton is an award-winning academic, writer, and editor. Twenty-three of her books are in publication-including a biography of Shakespeare and three series of children's books. More than 300 of her essays and features have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and websites; her books and research have been cited in HuffPost.com, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Ask Amy. She teaches at two universities in the Midwest and her academic research focuses on domestic violence coverage in media. For more info please see PamelaHillNettleton.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Sager Group LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1950154920
• ISBN 13: 9781950154920
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
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