http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/06/the-rise-and-fall-of-announcer-speak-class-war-edition/395387/
Class, this is some more reading for Thursday. I want you all to think about why the Mid-Atlantic accent largely disappeared (the article has a suggestion), and then make suggestions, based on the argument in the article, why academic writing is the way it is.
Some questions to ask yourselves:
What does academic writing look like? Have you had to do any writing which is academic? Why does it look & sound like it does? In what contexts is it appropriate? In what contexts might it be inappropriate?
Try to bring three questions/observations/complaints about either this reading or TSIS for Thursday.
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