[etni] fw: The Fate of The Sentence Is the Writing On the Wall
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From: "Margie Cohen" <margiecj@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: The Fate of The Sentence Is the Writing On the Wall
Finally...vindication for teaching kids Parts of Speech and to diagram
sentences.........
The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the Wall?
Washington Post - June 15
The demise of orderly writing: signs everywhere.
One recent report, young Americans don't write well.
In a survey, Internet language -- abbreviated wds, :) and txt msging --
seeping into academic writing.
But above all, what really scares a lot of scholars: the impending death of
the English sentence.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061202258.html
)
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