Less reading, more “writing”
To my mind, reading and writing are just things one does in a college class. As students’ language skills decline, assigning less reading and more “writing” solves nothing.
“How not to write”
Advice for aspirants in the humanities.
Verlyn Klinkenborg on the English major
“Ventriloquistic syntax.”
Adam Wheeler, prose stylist
Here is a perfect example of what Michael Harvey’s The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing calls “the pompous style.”
"[D]ark, wordy, academic deaths"
From J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Make your own academic sentence
"The culture of post-capitalist hegemony functions as the conceptual frame for the legitimation of the image."
"Plagiarism free"
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