DIALECT LEVELLING:
http://erinslanguageblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/time-to-say-ta-ra-to-ar-ere-accents.html
*state audience
*caption image (make use of text conventions)
*ending should come back to argument - should we speak more similarly?
*good voice/style
*needs to examine pros and cons of argument with more AO2 detail
*link more to source material
COMPARISON OF DAILY MAIL AND THE GUARDIAN:
*reference to diachronic language change in intro
*be more objective
*analyse, don't describe
*analyse techniques in Humphrys quote
*keep to academic register
*needs more close terminological analysis of meanings and representations
PRESCRIPTIVISM VS DESCRIPTIVISM:
*'prescriptivism vs descriptivism' needs adapting
*continue the extended metaphor in the title
*prescriptivism is too broad, modify it to 'linguistic prescriptivism'
*work on guiding and positioning the reader
*needs more support for David Crystal's argument throughout for increased cohesion
*more AO2
*focuses are cohesion and guiding reader
LANGUAGE AND GENDER:
*needs title - artificial sexism and new/old ideas about language or teaching people how they should talk
*use conventions -picture of robot and caption about AIs learning stereotypes
*more of a hook or reason for writing - Baxter's theory applied to May?
*use synonyms like hypothesis to avoid repetition of 'theory'
*more detail about how theories have built on Lakoff's deficit, despite it being problematic
*more on the idea of teaching the value of women's language so apologising for linguistic choices is no longer necessary
*more theory like Cameron
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