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English Brushup, 3e Book Cover
English Brushup, 3/e
John Langan
Janet Goldstein
Quotation Marks

Writing On/Off

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her and also to yourself by copying your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and pasting them (CTRL-V) into an email or text document.



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Activity 1

Visit The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks. What do you make of this site? Do you find the site funny? Where does the humor come from?

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Activity 2

Find a famous quotation on the internet. You might begin your search here, at the homepage for Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Which quote did you read? How did you find it? Who said it? What about it appeals to you?









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