Instructor: Dennis Baron
office: 251 English
phone: 244-0568
email: debaron@illinois.edu
office hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1 - 2 pm, and by appointment

class meets MW 9:30-10:45; 108 English Building

Syllabus

Language in the news instructions

Read the Web of Language

 

 

 

Handouts:

Segue login instructions

What is grammar good for?

The grammar of the Second Amendment

Some guy coins a new word: healthscare?

A new English pronoun?

Term paper topics

First day prompt  

Language of Fug

NASA plaque

The apostrophe

Double negatives

Samuel Johnson's definitions

Noah Webster's Speller

Phonetics charts

An x-ray movie of speech

New word exercise

And speaking of new words. . .

Midterm study guide

Cyber-Neologoliferation

The Myths of Teaching English

Basic writing exercise

Review for the final