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  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein published a blog post WOTY 2015 :( November 19, 2015 - 9:48pm
    The Oxford Dictionary’s annual selection of a ‘Word of the Year’ has always been a bit of an elusive concept to me. I don’t recall the first time that this ‘competition’ caught my attention, but a quick Google...
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    • Angie Abdou
      Angie Abdou November 23, 2015 - 9:14am

      This is great! Very intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking. My concerns mirror your own. Thank you for a good read over my morning coffee. 

  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein commented on the blog The National Census of Writing Sets an Important Precedent November 7, 2015 - 1:20pm
    Thanks, Angie - I appreciate your feedback! I really enjoy writing these posts. A question to clarify the punctuation standards for MLA - what about following a title? For example, paragraph 2, the beginning of line 3, after "...Writing" - should...
  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein commented on the blog The Culture Shock of Critical Engagement November 6, 2015 - 8:18pm
  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein published a blog post The National Census of Writing Sets an Important Precedent November 6, 2015 - 10:58am
    Every morning, I receive a selection of articles to read through the online Academica daily digest. I generally scan the headlines, reading the summaries and typically not much more. However, a couple of weeks ago, a headline caught my eye. Inside...
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    • Kyla Amrhein
      Kyla Amrhein November 7, 2015 - 1:20pm

      Thanks, Angie - I appreciate your feedback! I really enjoy writing these posts.

      A question to clarify the punctuation standards for MLA - what about following a title? For example, paragraph 2, the beginning of line 3, after "...Writing" - should the comma have been inside the close quotation?

      Thanks again!

      - Kyla

    • Angie Abdou
      Angie Abdou November 8, 2015 - 9:58am

      Yes ... except that when I look at that sentence, you should actually delete the commas all together. Putting commas around a phrase mark it as a non-essential phrase and indicate that it can be cut from the sentence without losing any meaning. In this case, we need the title. You could, however, still have a comma after the title (to set off that final phrase). In that case, the comma goes inside the quotation mark.

      Angie

  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein published a blog post The Culture Shock of Critical Engagement October 14, 2015 - 1:06pm
    As I mentioned in my forum post from week four, I was intrigued by the introduction to the first chapter of Learning to Read Critically in Teaching and Learning, written by Louise Poulson and Mike Wallace. The concept of a “cultural adjustment...
  • Kyla Amrhein
    Kyla Amrhein published a blog post Reflections on 'Being a Writer' September 27, 2015 - 2:23pm
    As a language student, one of the greatest lessons that I ever received came from my German instructor in my third year of my undergraduate degree. She asked if I considered myself fluent in German. A relatively simple question, but I couldn't...