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Engaging with a prescriptive audience:

Writing scripts for Grammar Girl

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On accident?

By accident?

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• Uniform• Efficient• Fun?

• Forces preparation• Novel test of presentation/planning skills

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Adjective or participle?

Adverb or preposition?

Participle or gerund?

Pronoun or adjective?

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Thanks to the Ohio State University Department of Linguistics and Mignon Fogarty for their support of this presentation.