Dear Colleague,
I am teaching my research methods course about what not to do when
writing manuscripts. If you would care to share, could you give me your top
5 or 10 pet peeves about student writing? I would like to share these lists
with my students. I think it would also be interesting to see how much
overlap there among/between us.
My top 6
1) misuse of affect / effect
2) use of male-female when men and women should be used
3) the phrase "Smith and Jones did a study and found"
4) a rhetorical style which presents 1 study and its finding per paragraph,
w. no integration
5) colloquialisms & dramatics
6) the phrase "there was no significance"
wedj
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Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. |
Chair and Associate Professor | Rocket science is child's play
of Psychology | compared to understanding
Department of Psychology | child's play
East Tennessee State University | -unknown
Johnson City, TN 36714 |
(423) 439-6656 |
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