F in Grammar? Maybe It's Your Phone's Fault

When Gena Babineaux  of YMCA finds a cover letter or resume with grammar errors she...

• tosses the application aside 
• asks the applicant to fix the mistakes
• calls the applicant in for an interview
• hires the applicant on the spot

According to the article, who is NOT finding a lot more grammar and writing mistakes than they used to. 

• English teachers
• college admission officers
• Facebook
• employers

A 2008 study of teenage grammar use in the digital age found that ___________ percent of teenagers use informal  writing  styles typical of electronic communication in their schoolwork.

• 38
• 25
• 64
• 100

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

The types of mistakes English teachers are finding include

• Words at the beginning of sentences not capitalized
• personal names are capitalized
• letters in place of numbers
• you substitutes for "u"

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

True or False: In college admission offices, a pattern of mistakes on applications can make a school think twice about making an offer. 

• true
• false

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

Patrick Herring, the admissions director at the University of Florida, blames ______________ for proofreading blunders. 

• students with a lax attitude about writing
• weak teachers
• students who forget to use spell check
• technology such as spell check

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

True or False: O'Connor, a blogger at Grammarphobia, argues that evolving grammar is perfectly natural and teenagers make mistakes because of technology. 

• True
• False

True or False: Teenagers know social media influences their writing, but the positive effects are that there are more ways to communicate. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.4.1C

True or False: People are going to judge you by what you write. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

If used constantly, what will creep into your school work?

• mountains of misspellings
• missing punctuation
• spacing mistakes
• slang and abbreviations

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C