Sentences that begin: "Being that....." I must have read this 20 times over the weekend! UGH!
Annette Quoting Wallace Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
