Grammar? Style?
Punctuation? LOL
Jim Killam
Student Publications Adviser
Northern Illinois University
Nielsen Company, October 2010:
The average American teen sends more than 3,000 texts
each month – more than 100 a day. In 2007, it was 435 a
month – about 14 a day.
That’s six texts every waking hour, or one every 10
minutes.
For 13- to 17-year-olds, the monthly texting average is
closer to 3,500.
Problem areas for our
new college students
Please stop the comma splices,
they are rampant.
We also see lots of run-on
sentences they are just as bad.
Its about time we tackle this
problem at it’s root.
Your kidding! They don’t listen in
you’re class?
Their has to be a better way
students can learn there
grammar.
We have many more problems
then these.
Im just saying that idea’s from
todays session might help all
schoolz.
Our group can take their time
reviewing these grammar
points.
My talk, which covers lots of
grammar points that might
interest you’re students, are
starting to get boring.
Jim said – “I like this session”!!!
;-)
“I like this session” said Jim!
“It’s the best”!
There is a problem with passive
sentence construction.
Wat do u tnk? ru learning
anything frm dis PPT? txt spk
bleeds nto frml writin .
So, like, I’m talking to you today
and we’re talking about
grammar and we’re getting, like,
all technical and whatever, and
one thing we’re really, truly
trying to say is just that, IMHO,
students’ writing is waaaay too
wordy, you know?
Suggestions from
college media advisers
Find creative ways to point out and, yes, stigmatize
bad grammar.
Find creative ways to point out and, yes, stigmatize
bad grammar.
Emphasize form, not just ideas.
Find creative ways to point out and, yes, stigmatize
bad grammar.
Emphasize form, not just ideas.
Do not send us students who don’t grasp basic
grammar.
Find creative ways to point out and, yes, stigmatize
bad grammar.
Emphasize form, not just ideas.
Do not send us students who don’t grasp basic
grammar.
Have this conversation with junior-high teachers.
Find creative ways to point out and, yes, stigmatize
bad grammar.
Emphasize form, not just ideas.
Do not send us students who don’t grasp basic
grammar.
Have this conversation with junior-high teachers.
Emphasize, encourage and grow student media.
So … now what?
This PowerPoint, and links, at …
www.ninaonline.org
“Digital Ink” blog
jkillam@niu.edu