STANDARDIZATION, EXPECTATION, AND JUDGMENT

William Deresiewicz, “You Talkin’ to Me?” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/zR3SrT
Geoffrey Nunberg, “The Decline of Grammar” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/rm9yQt
Based on William Deresiewicz’s “You Talkin’ to Me?”, Geoffrey Nunberg’s “The Decline of Grammar,” and your own observations and experience, do some note-taking, brainstorming, and rough drafting for an essay dealing with issues of standardization, expectation, and judgment in response to language use

David Crystal, “The Prescriptive Tradition” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/1C0vRd
Edward Finegan, “State of American: What is ‘Correct’ Language?” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/Lzzfzf
Dennis Baron, “Language and Society” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/Vmxt6T
Based on David Crystal’s “The Prescriptive Tradition,” Edward Finegan’s “State of American,” Dennis Baron’s “Language and Society,” and your own observations and experience, continue note-taking, brainstorming, and rough-drafting for your essay dealing with issues of standardization, expectation, and judgment in response to language use.

Carmen Fought, “Are Dialects Fading?” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/m7HDD9
John Fought, “Gatekeeping: Barring the Gates of Language” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/WnBkJk
Cecelia Cutler, “Crossing Over” http://app.simplenote.com/publish/Xb2Jq3
Based on Carmen Fought’s “Are Dialects Fading?”, John Fought’s “Gatekeeping,” and Cecelia Cutler’s “Crossing Over,” revise a third and final draft of your essay on standardization, expectation, and judgment in response to language use. Your revised essay (dealing with all eight texts from the past three weeks) need not radically shift its focus or perspective on the issues, but it should meaningfully incorporate ideas and challenges from the three new readings into its discussion of the underlying issues. Use specific details from the texts to support and illustrate your observations, being sure to
use quotation marks when including an author’s words.

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