One thing has already changed about me -- or at least been added to my learning curve -- the fact that this blog program comes with a spell-check function. Praise be! Alas, it only works if you disable your pop-up blocker. Drat!
My goals for this course, in simplest terms, are this:
1. Gain additional and vast knowledge about the above-mentioned subject, in order to be a better educator when I return to the slings and arrows of the classroom.
2. Gain enough "test-question" random facts so as to pass the necessary (albeit slightly oppressive) PRAXIS II exam.
3. Feed my admitted addiction to words, learning, and reading, and have it legitimized by actual homework assignments. In other words, rather than doing something like this for fun, and being asked why the laundry is piling up, child is redecorating, dog is chewing through what should have been dinner, etc. -- I will have an answer! I HAVE to do this.
4. Eventually, I hope what I learn in this course will enrich my own writing. Not so much with words, mind you, as words such as the one in the title of this whole blog are sure to crucify any book as soon as a prospective editor or publisher sees it (unless it is a textbook.) No, instead I hope that by learning more about the properties of the language, the history, the grammar, the morphology, lexicography, and the meaning, I will be better able to manipulate it. "Clueless no More" indeed.
5. If my some miracle my enrollment in this course manages to solve all the problems of mankind, that, too would be great. They say the Irish saved civilization. Maybe the English language can sort it out and make it useful again. Even spoken by a Yankee.
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