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by Edwin L. Battistella Edwin Battistella reads from Do You Make These Mistakes in English? in this YouTube video from Open Books, Open Minds with Amy Blossom. Impertinent Questions with Edwin L. Battistella by David Skinner in Humanities Mar/Apr 2010 |
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In the early 1900s, the language of America was becoming colloquial English - the language of the businessman, manager, and professional. Because high school and college educations were not available to most of the public, many people turned to correspondence education - that era's distance learning - to learn the art of speaking and writing. By the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of Americans were sending coupons from newspapers and magazines to order Sherwin Cody's 100% Self-correcting Course in the English Language, a patented mail-order course in English that was taken by over 150,000 people. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
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Library Journal Best Seller in Language 2009 Times Literary Supplement Recommended by Choice Reviews |
| Cody's The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language (Project Gutenberg) | |
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Edwin L. Battistella is also the Author of Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? (Oxford University Press, 2005), The Logic of Markedness (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Markedness, The Evaluative Superstructure of Language (SUNY Press, 1990). Battistella is professor of English and Writing at southern Oregon University In Ashland, Oregon. His writing has appeared in the Chronicle of higher education, academe, choice, The oregonian, the omaha world herald, and many scholarly journals. |
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battiste at sou.edu last updated 2011Mar |
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