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04-09-2008
07:40 AM
Sometimes the best way to see something is to look at it in a whole other way. Have your students review the material in the handbook on sentence construction and then have them create mathematical formulae for sentences. For example, subject + verb = simple sentence or subject – verb = fragment. Ask them to provide a sample sentence for each formula from their current drafts or from the essay under discussion.
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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.