The ideas this week suggest ways to ask students to explore the messages behind public language. The English Journal article "Doublespeak Detection for the English Classroom" explores examples from literature, newspapers, and advertisements.
Advertisements are a fertile source for examples. To explore advertising's use of doublespeak, look to the analytical techniques outlined in the Teaching English in the Two-Year College article "Advertising and Interpretive Analysis: Developing Reading, Thinking, and Writing Skills in the Composition Course".
Source: NCTE
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