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  • 04 May 08
    alicemercer
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    • And teachers - English teachers, especially, but any teacher using writing to assess understanding and merit in your classrooms - ask yourself, in this age of user-created video and audio, if it makes any sense to keep giving the Muhammed Ali’s of our classrooms a D- because they can’t write well, when they can speak well enough to be honored, like Ali was, at Harvard and Oxford. The English teacher in me is uncomfortable with this question, but the history teacher in me thinks it’s justified: Writing is no longer supreme since the Digital Revolution. It’s now on equal footing with Speaking and Graphic Communication. Isn’t it?
  • 28 Apr 08
    hfeldman3
    Fannah

    • In the real world, if you’re trying to proofread an essay, two spellings are not given.


      You’re kidding me, right? Two spellings sure as hell are given. I type my essay. I proofread by reading it. If there are spelling errors, I can see them. I right click, there are two spellings.

      • Fannah

        Fannah on 2008-04-28

        No, you are not given two spellings. Using the current example of "duel" vs "dual": you type "duel" but the intended meaning is "dual." The computer does not catch this. When proofreading, you cannot see two spellings, you see only your incorrect "duel." If, however, you just plain spell it wrong, perhaps "duil" then yes, you will be presented with various options.

    • only in English can “ghoti” spell “fish” - lauGH wOmen naTIon
      • Fannah

        Fannah on 2008-04-28

        What?

      • Clay Burell

        Clay Burell on 2008-04-28

        gh is an f sound if lauGH.
        o is an i sound in wOmen
        ti is a sh sound in naTIon.

        --Get it? GH O TI = F i SH.

        The phonetics of English are whacked. German is a perfectly spelled language, by contrast: each word tells you how it sounds.

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  • 27 Apr 08
    drichards
    Dennis Richards

    This post is for any student who, like Ali in the epigraph above, has a low GPA (and thus a low self-image), but a brilliant mind. It’s also for teachers of those students who wish they could do their part to make that GPA more accurately reflect that student’s abilities.

    Listen, in this YouTube interview from 1971, to this “sub-par” English student’s brilliance with language*, and laugh at the limitations of assessing writing and spelling to measure verbal intelligence:

    writing assessment intelligence

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