Word: grammars
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...passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn how to take tests but not how to think." Maria Aguilar, an eighth-grader at Robert J. Frank, shares the concern: "It's kind of boring...
Atwood shared anecdotes from her experience as a graduate student at Radcliffe and Harvard, and as a grammar teacher at the University of British Columbia, where she wrote one of her novels “on leftover blue-lined exam notebooks...
...little bit over the top with her grammar, but that's part of the fun of it. I think they're very common mistakes, especially when you have a really enthusiastic speaker like Junie B. who tends to speak as she's thinking and not have any lag time at all, which is part of my problem as well, so I identify with this...
...fell into column writing almost accidentally. She graduated with a degree in History and Literature but had no clue what to do with it. A brief stint as a paralegal turned her off of a career in law, but her knack for grammar landed her a job in journalism. Soon she was editing for The Army Times, the media outlet for the armed forces. That led to a gig news editing at The Washington Post. There, while casually talking to superior about an advice columnist who neither of them liked, Hax blurted out, “What you really need...
...always at a huge disadvantage to the upperclass students who are “running out of time,” and therefore more “deserving” of a position. Friendships carry more weight with hirers, as do small meaningless details, such as e-mail grammar. Ability is no longer the determining characteristic where everyone’s able. The Rhodes Scholar applicants who didn’t receive Harvard’s support on Monday, and the writers who applied for columns and were rejected, and the singers who were refused membership to prestigious groups...