Do Now:

1. Do Now: • Brainstorm the most common slang words or expressions used in Tech.

2. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing?

3. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • Avoid slang—informal and sometimes private vocabulary • If we don’t begin studying for the final, a whole semester’s work is going down the tubes. • Because he did not listen to his teacher, Billy Bob had an epic fail. If we don’t begin studying for the final, a whole semester’s work will be wasted.

4. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • Choose an appropriate level of formality. Too informal: I’d like to get that technician job you’ve got in the paper. Once a pitcher for the Reds, Bob shared with me the secrets of his trade. His lesson commenced with his famous curveball, implemented by tucking the little finger behind the ball instead of holding it straight out. Next he elucidated the mysteries of the sucker pitch, a slow ball coming behind a fast windup. More formal: I would like to apply for the technician position listed in the Peoria Journal Star.

5. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • In the 1800s, an English dude named Thomas Robert Malthus became involved in economics. He was really psyched about predicting how many more people would populate the world eventually and how much food would be available for them. What he figured out was gross. He said people kept having children faster than men could produce enough to feed them. There was no way to avoid it. Hard times and wars would do most people in. According to Malthus, famine, plagues, and even wars were necessary to knock off some excess people so the remainder could have enough food.

6. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • Avoid sexist language • After the nursing student graduates, she must face a difficult state exam [Stereotyping] • A journalist is stimulated by his deadline [Generic he or his] • Chairman, mankind, manpower [Inappropriate] A journalist is stimulated by his or her deadline. [Acceptable but wordy] Journalists are stimulated by their deadlines. [Better: Using the plural] A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. [Better: Recasting the sentence]

7. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • Avoid sexist language • A good designer chooses her projects carefully.

8. Aim: How do you choose appropriate language in your writing? • Working with your cluster, revise the following paragraph using standard English free of slang, jargon, pretentious language, and sexist language. • One recorder from the group should compose the finished paragraph while one reporter from the group should be prepared to share the group’s version with the class.