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Thursday, April 26 • 9:30am - 10:45am
Slaying the Chimera: Diagramming Some of the Worst Sentences Ever Published

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These sentences laugh at subject-predicate structure, active voice and parallelism, but we will make the subjects and verbs agree and have some fun at the same time. I've collected the worst of the worst in print. Together, we will subject them to the kind of scrutiny that would make my high school writing teacher beam with pride. If you miss the pleasure of sentence diagramming, join us. If you have only seen these unnatural acts on YouTube, you are particularly welcome.

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Hillary Warren

Professor and T&C Media Adviser, Otterbein University
Hillary Warren, Ph.D., is professor of communication and student media adviser at Otterbein University. She has received the Board of Directors Citation for service to student media and the 2015 Distinguished Adviser Award from College Media Advisers. Her students, who have gone on... Read More →

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Thursday April 26, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Salons 4, 5, 6
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