Classroom Comedy: Student Slips & Quips
(Collected from freshman essays) Errors That Are Almost Right, Maybe Even Should Be Right One negative aspect of a credit card is that it is too easy to abuse. It gives one free excess to […]
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Super Duper Student Bloopers
I collected all of the following sentences and items from students in my college English composition courses over a 30-year teaching career. Most of the humor comes from sound-alike word confusions, typos, or misspellings. Our […]
Lit-Errata
For thirty years as a college literature teacher, I collected student gaffes that I thought were worth saving. I invite you to judge my teaching ability based on my students’ grasp of the material. The […]