Blog Post #6--CCSS for Writing and CCSS for Language at http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/ and NES text pages 88-129

Quotation marks can be kind of weird. Of course, they have the primary purpose of indicating dialogue. However, they can also be used in different ways such as indicating sarcasm. Although, personally I prefer to use italics to show sarcasm, but in person people will use air quotes to indicate it. It also took me many years before I honestly realized that punctuation marks belong inside quotation marks instead of outside. NES refers to this in the cold, unfeeling, and robotic tone common in textbooks. It refers to it as: “Terminal Punctuation in Relation to Quotation Marks.” Which I here employ the rules within the title for added meta affect. Overall this selection from the textbook is a quick overview on the grammar class I took a few quarters ago. Most of these rules I’ve already been over at one point or another, but it’s always good to review. Over time, I find my penchant for grammar grows more and more aloof. Although I don’t much care for the study of grammar itself, it matters to me because I enjoy writing. It’s like when a stone mason enjoys cutting the stone, but not laying it. The organizational layout of an argument is where it really gets interesting. I’ve always been told I should pre-write my ideas before beginning the writing process, but I’ve never had much luck with that. I find the ideas flow far better when I’m actually in the process of writing them in an essay form. It gives my mind a reason to follow up on a particular element of my argument because I just finished describing that element. In short, it just makes more sense to me to write a draft then revise without the pre-writing notes process. Primary sources are always better to refer to within a strong argument, but there is definitely a benefit to using a secondary source if that source is capable of having a supporting role in the writer’s argument. However, if anything, these secondary sources are meant to be supplementary to the primary sources. 

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