Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore the academic and professional sides of writing. New posts arrive each week throughout the semester.
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college writing
The two main themes would be engagement, audience awareness, But audience awareness is important because listening is key to growing.
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Nobody’s Perfect: You’ll Live If You Make a Grammar Mistake
Hannah Montana once said, ‘Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days,’ and I think Kyle Wiens could learn from that.
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AAVE as Acceptable Academic Language
This post explores the requirements to being hired in a company and explains why AAVE should be recognized as a acceptable language.
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Tools and Prod.
Tools can help the productivity of writers, but I also think that they can become a crutch if depended on a lot and take away from writers…
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I don’t like people who don’t allow for mistakes. Here’s why.
Kyle Wiens is too quick to punish his employees. He could have the grammar pro employees he wanted if he focused more on helping them grow.
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AAVE is Important and Wiens is Wrong.
A dive into Wiens article about improper writing as well as a look into how AAVE can be beneficial for writing.
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