Student life - Speak my language
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Student life - Speak my language

Benny Goodman Lecturer in health, Studies at the University of Plymouth

Increasing use of the American lexicon in his students’ essays grates with lecturer Benny Goodman

Marking students’ work utilizes judgment regarding language use and results in loss of color from my face when I center my thoughts on the words emphasized by students in the text. Students seem to harbor the idea that if the spell check does not challenge a word then all is well.

Nursing Standard. 24, 42, 61-61. doi: 10.7748/ns.24.42.61.s52

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