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Teaching Orwell's Six Points of Style with CritiqueIt

Students demonstrate their understanding of Orwell's chief style points

Students read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," discuss it in class, and then demonstrate their understanding of Orwell's chief style points through an activity using CritiqueIt, a tool for collaborative composition and peer review. 

Visualizing Word Choice with Lexipedia

Screen Shot of Lexipedia software

This assignment focuses on using a visual thesaurus to illustrate the nuanced relationships among words that the list form of the traditional thesaurus glosses over.

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