I agree that students have too many one-sentence paragraphs.
But that can be appropriate at times.
Also, the prohibition against split infinitives comes from the
days when English was supposed to mimic the rules of Latin (it doesn't).
(Another rule from those days was not ending a sentence with a
preposition.)
don
Donald McBurney
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From: DeVolder Carol L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: RE: Writing Pet Peeves
One thing I find myself saying or writing is: ONE SENTENCE IS NOT A
PARAGRAPH!!! Otherwise, most of your pet peeves are mine as well. I'm
also kind of bothered about split infinitives and dangling participles.
Carol
Oh, and overuse of "they" or "them".
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From: Wallace Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:07 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Writing Pet Peeves
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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