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My name is Scott Alberts, and I teach statistics at Truman State University. You can find my real page here
I like UserBoxen, Proposed deletions, and Deletion Debates
[edit] IDS 175
This semester, I am planning to use Wikipedia as part of my class on interdisciplinarity. It's either a really cool idea, or not. We'll share what we find at the page for School Projects. You can see what they're doing on their Lab 2 Assignment.
- Sample Cool User, from Truman: KHill
[edit] UserBoxen
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This user prefers using userboxes to fill up his/her user page instead of actually writing something useful. |
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Grammatical views
| less & fewer |
This user understands the difference between less and fewer. So should you. |
| its/it's |
It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
to / too
/ two |
Too many people have no idea how to use words they should have learned in grade two. |
| their / there / they're |
This user knows that there, their, and they're are not the same word. |
| your/ you’re |
This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, you’re in need of help. |
| AIM-Able |
This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not use it. Ever. |
they |
This user considers singular they substandard English usage. |
| ’s |
Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. [sic] |
A, B, and
A and B |
This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. |
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