Dear Composition 101 students:
“YOLO” is not a topic sentence.
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I don”t even know what YOLO means.
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You Only Live Once. My favorite is when people use “LOL” in a formal proposal or resume.
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Wow. That just blows my mind.
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ugh. Luckily as a peer writing tutor I have never come across that. How sad is the education system now that students are that inept at writing?
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And don’t forget the topic sentence “Today I’m going to write about…”
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sometimes I want to file a missing person’s report for the time I lose reading awful papers
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Hahahhahaha! It was better referred to as carpe diem, kids :). Stop using YOLO and no more LOL, IDK or numbers in words. I h8 it.
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Also in this category:
“Student, if you say ‘swag’ one more time, I will slap you with a dictionary until you can describe someone with a word you’re not using incorrectly and ironically (although you don’t know what that means either).”
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Oooh, fantastic! I have yet to come across that one.
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