Because this brief story couldn't fit in Twitter.
One of my greatest tutoring moments ever:
A student asked me how he could avoid repetition. Specifically, the word, confused, popped up in his essay too many times. He was unfamiliar with the thesaurus, so I broke out the good ol' Meriam-Webster, and directed him to find a synonym for confused that he liked ( Read more... )
A student asked me how he could avoid repetition. Specifically, the word, confused, popped up in his essay too many times. He was unfamiliar with the thesaurus, so I broke out the good ol' Meriam-Webster, and directed him to find a synonym for confused that he liked ( Read more... )
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Mumbled! awww! that's amazing.
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"She's a good student, but she mumbles so much her essays are unreadable!"
"He mumbled his bathroom description, and called it a sanctum with a lavabo and closestool."
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