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Thankfulness is relative
For example, I haven’t seen too many sentences like this one yet this semester: “The bridge in this article is that because the scores of this test were rendered towards the fact that the … more →
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Thankfulness is relative
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rethoryke wrote 2 days ago: For example, I haven’t seen too many sentences like this one yet this semester: “The bri … more →
Festival of Bad Writing, Fall 2009 entries
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rethoryke wrote 1 month ago: Please avoid opening sentences like these: “X is such an important part of society today … more →
Brave new phrases
rethoryke wrote 1 month ago: I think this is the gate outside the garden of the Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans I had not realize … more →
Holy flaming luminaries, Batman...
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rethoryke wrote 3 months ago: Now, I’ll admit that this title might have some of you thinking I’m going to regale the … more →
Post-semester Festival of Bad Writing
rethoryke wrote 6 months ago: Because it never ends, it never ends…. “Unfortunately, my predictions were correct, and … more →
Do not taunt happy fun professor
rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: Insert plagiarized paper here I tell my students not to use Wikipedia as a source text. They can rea … more →
Chaos starts the day
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rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: The alarm clock goes off, and the radio announces “Chrysler is alive!” Xeno begins throw … more →
For instance, diaper rash....
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rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: “Future generations depend on the ability of society to be accountable for their actions and u … more →
Festival of Bad Writing, mid-spring edition
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rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: Today’s first contestants: “..Issues are escalating, in need of planning well in advance … more →
Supporting your local rhetorician
rethoryke wrote 8 months ago: There was a bumper sticker handed out at 4Cs years ago [in the 80s, probably] by Wadsworth Publishin … more →
Spring Festival of Bad Writing '09
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rethoryke wrote 8 months ago: Happy Nowruz, Happy Spring, Happy Oestra! Now would someone pass the mead over this way? In writing … more →
Ere I gouge out mine eyes...
rethoryke wrote 11 months ago: …in utter dismay….. I thought y’all should see this: “Knowing the tables as … more →
Forever young
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rethoryke wrote 11 months ago: Alphaville is proclaiming themselves from the speakers on my lap — there’s an image, eh? … more →
A link to somebody else's trove of bad writing
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rethoryke wrote 11 months ago: Not a happy bluebird. Possibly an angry tropical grackle... I haven’t got my final exams yet, … more →
Needing a little Christmas
rethoryke wrote 12 months ago: Getting though the next two weeks is the big challenge…. But we did have snow, and there … more →
Festival of Bad Writing, November 08
rethoryke wrote 1 year ago: Oh, well we haven’t had one of these posts in a while. One of the side effects of cleaning is … more →
Many flies were young.
rethoryke wrote 1 year ago: That’s one of my all-time favorite lab report conclusions. Yes, this was during the time I was … more →
Moments of redemption
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rethoryke wrote 1 year ago: I typed that title, and then realized that someone might think I was talking about the election. No, … more →
