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, Aug. 27) was based, in part, on contrasting Jacquielynn Floyd’s work with the teeth-grinding errors I’ve seen in a college newspaper whose editors should know better, by the tortured syntax on television news websites and by the never-ending flow of examples on the internet. Even one of America’s great newspapers allows a gremlin to sneak through now and then.
By following the simple rules of good writing, Floyd fashions prose that is clear and accessible. She uses an active voice. She writes declarative sentences. And she taps a vocabulary that doesn’t require a trip to Google. I salute Ms. Casey and the English composition teachers of Texas. I wish them well in their impressive effort to teach our children how to master the English language. May some of their students go on to be the Jacquielynn Floyds of the next generation.
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