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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Laura Aull
Laura Aull
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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You Can't Write That
8 Myths About Correct English
 , pp. 224 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Index

abbreviations, 20, 152
academic writing, 25, 112, 129, 154
Academically Adrift, 89
active verbs, 27, 63, 140, 165
adjectives, 24, 155
advanced placement (AP), 74, 91, 113, 184
adverbs, 8, 25, 119–118
Antioch College, 50, 70, 71
argumentative essay, 52, 81, 97, 108, 110, 112, 121
Army Alpha test, the, 53, 54, 60
Atlantic, the, 14, 145, 147, 186
Australia’s Special Tertiary Admissions Tests (STAT), 74, 97, 108, 180
Bain, Alexander, 31
bias, 61
blog, 61, 112, 126, 183, 185, 188
boosters, 44, 64, 101, 118, 122, 130, 141
brackets, 44, 64, 101, 122
Briggs, LeBaron Russel, 71, 88
Brigham, Carl, 53, 54, 57, 59, 67, 72
British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 136, 147, 171
Burt, Cyril, 48, 52–54, 59, 67, 72, 75–76, 77, 178
California High School Proficiency Examination (CAHSPE), 108
Cambridge, 30, 31, 35, 68–71, 76, 86, 93, 97, 108, 163, 171, 178–180
Campbell, George, 12, 15, 17, 31
capitalization, 20, 21, 71, 87, 96, 111, 112, 154–157, 163, 165
civility, 118, 172
Clarendon Report, The, 29, 32
closed lexical categories, 23
cohesion, 118
collaborative authorship, 131, 135, 138
college admission, 50, 74, 78, 163
Common Core, 108, 182
composition courses, 10, 75, 113, 115
compression, 120
conjunctions, 23, 147
control, over practice, 10, 93
correct writing, 33
constraints of, 20, 40, 49, 146
continuum for, 161
origin of, 13, 30, 74, 147
regulation of, 9, 35, 126, 163
spelling of, 17, 94
Court of Chancery, 13, 28
Critical language awareness, or CLA, 74, 78, 89, 90, 181
Dale, Thomas, 18
dialect, 14, 17, 37, 41, 52
digital writing, 11, 24, 147, 159
diverse writing, 6
Edinburgh Review, 128
Education Act, The, 72
Education Weekly, 137
Elements of Style, 18, 19, 28
Eliot, Charles, 12, 18, 50, 70, 128
email, 127, 155
workplace, 10, 24, 131, 132, 139, 143, 162, 163
emojis, 26, 132, 145, 149, 154, 158, 187
English composition exams, 9, 70
English for Academic Purposes (EAP/ESP), 113–114, 116
English Language Amendment, 38
Enlightenment, the, 30, 172
entrance exams, 18, 50, 51, 57, 69–72, 93, 98, 112
errors, 96
eugenics, 49, 53, 57
exaggerations, 149
extrapolation, 60, 73, 78
first-year college students, 79, 89, 113
Fisher, Ann, 15
five-paragraph essay, 109
formal writing, 11, 20, 132
academic research, 155
formal syntax, 157, 158
General Certificate of Education (GCE), 67, 73, 77
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), 74, 77, 78, 93, 108, 136, 146
generalizations, 44, 64, 84–85, 101, 122, 130, 141
Gillard, Julia, 90, 180, 182
Gonzalez, 112
grade point average (GPA), 80, 135
grammar
bad/good grammar, 20, 32, 34
checkers, 24
conventions, 20, 87, 112
schools, 30
Greek, 30–32, 96
Harpers, 18, 95
Harvard English entrance exam, 42
hedges, 44, 64, 101, 118, 130, 141
high school, 105, 108, 123
Hillegas, Milo, 51, 52, 61–65
Hourglass organization, 43, 63, 65, 101, 102, 121, 140
informational writing, 11, 124, 162
intelligence quotient, 9, 51–61, 177, 178
intelligence tests, 57–60, 78, 90
International Baccalaureate (IB), 74
interpersonal language, 81, 110, 130, 164
Johnson, Samuel, 14, 15, 17
lab reports, 116, 127
Ladies Magazine (publication), 127
Language awareness. See CLA
language difference, 38–39, 41, 152
language diversity, 41, 166. See linguistic diversity
language ignorance, 59, 149
language knowledge, 6, 9, 32, 35, 40, 41, 47, 79, 160, 162, 164, 166
language regulation mode, 40, 95
Latin, 13, 15, 30–32, 36, 68, 96, 171, 172
learning
culture of, 9, 59, 73, 76
evaluation of, 136
linguistic diversity, 8–9, 33, 37, 39, 41–42, 148, 166
linguistic equity, 25, 41, 163
Lowth, Robert, 14, 15, 21, 171
Mann, Horace, 48, 49, 70
McCulloch, Gretchen, 132, 151
mechanics, 94, 157, 158, 182
memorization, 21, 114
metacognition, 116, 117, 163
Milton, 31
morphology, 23, 24, 154, 157–159
Murray, Lindley, 5, 15, 171
Napier Commission, 33
National Assessment of Educational Progress, 89, 96, 97, 182
National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), 74, 90, 93, 97, 108, 183
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), 99
nationalism, 15, 71
natural intelligence, 48, 57
New York Times, 19, 105, 145, 158, 180, 187
Newbolt Report, 12, 35, 37
Newsweek, 86, 89, 105, 180
Norwood Report, 59
noun phrases, 24–28, 81, 155, 157–159, 164, 185
density of, 25, 120
Observer (publication), 29, 36
oral communication, 41, 68, 137, 179
Oxford, 30, 35, 68, 70, 71, 75, 80, 179
passive verbs, 19, 26, 27, 43, 44, 46, 63–65, 100, 101, 121, 122, 140, 141, 159, 165
performance measurement, 142
persuasive essay, 85
Philosophy of Rhetoric. See Campbell, George
phonemes, 21
phrenology, 9, 49
point, evidence, evaluation, link (PEEL), 109, 119
preposition, 23–25
Priestley, Joseph, 14, 30, 35
Princeton, 30, 70, 128
professional success, 125–127, 134
pronouns
first person pronouns, 4, 28
punctuation, 21, 42, 47, 52, 69, 80
assessments of, 97, 145
historical interpretations of, 5, 31, 90, 151
within the writing continuum, 158
race, 53, 157
Rae, John, 36
registers, 41
Revolution, American, 30
revolutions, Industrial, 32
rhetoric, 31, 91
rhetorical move, 116
rubric, 94
Saturday Evening Post, 128
school, 30
Native American, 33
School and Society, 128
secondary education., 115
Shakespeare, 31, 75
Sheils, Meril. See Why Johnny can’t Write
Silber, John, 38, 95
slang, 11, 145, 147, 152, 153, 154
Smitherman, Geneva, 3, 40
social media writing, 132, 146, 151, 155
socioeconomic status, 9, 61, 78
spelling, 8, 13, 17, 21, 66, 70, 78, 111–112, 114
split infinitives, 36
standard English
English, standardized, 13, 93, 170
national language, 13, 33, 38
origin of, 13
standard English, origins of
15th century, 8, 26, 114
17th century, 13
18th century, 8, 14, 15, 30, 35, 75
19th century, 7, 9, 14, 18, 31, 33, 49, 50, 51, 52, 68, 69, 90, 146
20th century, 9, 10, 17, 38, 48, 54, 57, 67, 73, 75, 89, 96, 113, 127–129, 146, 172
21st century, 12, 29, 48, 89, 90, 98, 105, 129
standardized testing, 9, 77, 78, 89, 109
Accuplacer, 74, 77, 113, 179
ACT, 73, 74, 78, 108
SAT, 72, 73, 78, 79, 113, 146
Strunk and White. See Elements of Style
student debt, 137
subject-verb-object, 22, 152, 159
superlatives, 24
Swift, Jonathan, 14, 15
Sword, Helen, 152
Sydney Morning Herald, 86, 90, 98
teaching, 3, 29, 37, 46, 93, 95, 109–112, 170
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), 39
technology
digital, 136, 151
new, 144–148, 154
television, 89, 145, 146, 149
Terman, Lewis, 53, 54, 59
Tertiary Online Writing Assessment (TOWA), 93
test-based criteria, 92
tests, individual timed, 49, 61, 70, 77, 97
texting, 20, 145, 146, 152, 186
textism, 11, 21
transfer, 116
transitions, 109–118, 125, 136, 162, 184
Twitter (now X), 153–155
Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights, 41
US Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, 94, 182
US National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), 99
usage guides, 6, 8, 14, 15, 19, 20, 36, 148
usage preferences, 14, 18, 87, 157
usage wardens, 14, 18
verbs, 8, 20, 24–28, 36, 44, 64, 101, 118, 120, 122, 158
vocabulary, 89, 90, 93, 147
Webster, Noah, 14, 17, 18
Whitman, Walt, 153
Why Johnny Can’t Write, 86, 89, 96, 180
Worlds Apart, 129, 134, 137
writing
2-D, 9, 61, 74
3-D, 9, 61–62, 77, 162
argumentative. See argumentative essay
explanatory, 10, 81, 108, 110
moralized, 15
narrative, 97, 108–110, 148, 183
regulated, 33, 35, 40, 47, 49, 68, 76, 77, 86, 105, 146, 147
ungrammatical, 22
workplace, 10, 126, 127, 129–144, 162
writing ability, 152
writing continuum, 16, 21, 27, 120, 164, 155–157

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  • Book: You Can't Write That
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