Donna Young's Blog: English Section

English Section

Donna Young @ 25 March 2010
Filed in Categories: Language Arts

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I have been working in the English section off and on for months and have little to show for it online. English or Language Arts is a huge topic and one person could spend decades writing about it. I don't plan to spend the rest of my life writing about English, but I would like to get some useful free resources online for educators. The most difficult part is deciding what parts to include. Once I choose a topic, then I have to decide when to stop, how deep should I go? Any information that I include will be in any grammar handbook, so then I ask myself, is this writing about grammar a good use of my time? I still haven't answered that question. Meanwhile, I have to think like a homeschooler and write about parts of language arts from the perspective of a homeschooler. I still don't know if I should do even that much.

I have recently been uploading the new pages. Some of the pages have no links to them and some might have one link, but when you get there, you will find a page with broken links and a changed menu. That's a sloppy side of webmastering that I usually try to avoid, but at some point, you have to upload the pages. You have to, and for a reason that seems good at the time, the unpolished pages go up.

Below is a list of pages that shouldn't be uploaded yet but are. The pages contain lists associated with the study of language arts. They are not a complete set of lists either-- language arts is a vast topic.

English Lists:
Lists Homepage
Lists: Literature
Lists: Orators
Lists: Speaking
Lists: Rhetoric: Effective Use of Language
Lists: Writing

[Image above is a page from my 1931 copy of Wolley's and Scott's Book, College Handbook of Composition]

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