Correct grammar is apparently just a social construct, much like gender, to judge from the sage commentary of the vice chancellor at the University of Washington Tacoma: The university's Vice Chancellor, Jill Purdy, claimed that the Writing Center's new statement is a great example of how academia can fight back against racism. "Language is the bridge between ideas and action," she claimed. "So how we use words has a lot of influence on what we think and do." Ms. Purdy was praising the leadership of Asao B. Inoue, Ph.D., director, Writing Center, U.W. Tacoma: "I do research that investigates racism in writing assessments."  The title of one of the professor's books indicates the scrupulously fair and even-handed approach he brings to the subject: "Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future."  The blurb is instructive: To explain how...(Read Full Post)