Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ468523
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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Oh to Be a Writer.
Johnson, Andrea
ETC: A Review of General Semantics, v49 n2 p168-70 Sum 1992
Describes a writing assignment in which a teacher asked students to prepare a one-page autobiography written in E-Prime, a form of English deleting all forms of the verb "to be." Presents student comments that suggest that the assignment was highly beneficial. (HB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Styles, Semantics, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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