Checker Challenge

barclay_barrios
0 0 93
Go over the material on grammar checkers in the handbook. Have students pay attention to the sentences that their word processor’s grammar checker flags. The challenge is to come in with a correct sentence the grammar checker thought was wrong. Students should use the handbook, comparing what the grammar checker flagged as wrong to the handbook definition.
About the Author
Barclay Barrios is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the world wide web, and composing digital identities. He was Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and currently serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, and the author of Emerging.