About
My name is Mark R. Stoneman. In the process of teaching history at Georgetown University (Washington, DC) and George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), I have spent a lot of time correcting student essays. I began writing about some of these issues for my history students, but I decided it would be useful to pursue this project further on a blog devoted to language. This blog is for my students and anyone else who would like to improve their writing skills.
Outside of university I have taught English to non-native speakers for many years. This blog is for them too. Currently I am working at LADO in Washington, DC, and I offer private instruction. Past schools I have worked for include Berlitz (Washington, DC), Viva Sprachkurse (Augsburg, Germany), and Sprachstudio Lingua Nova (Munich, Germany).
Contact: You can find me on twitter at mstoneman_esl, or you can email me at markstoneman at mac (ignore these words) dot com.
Last updated: 9/7/2009
My Language Twitter
- mstoneman_esl: First snow of year in DC. :) Fun for those English students of mine who had never seen it before.
- mstoneman_esl: @kalinagoenglish The existence of class and the use of the word say nothing about social mobility. Maybe you're conflating class and caste?
- mstoneman_esl: @kalinagoenglish Most countries, I'd say, though I've found Europeans to be more up front with the language of class than Americans are.
- mstoneman_esl: @Ente81 Schwierig, weil es immer noch so viele Vorurteile darüber gibt, auch unter mutmasslichen aufgekärten, akademischen Kreisen.
- mstoneman_esl: RT @chronicle: English prof writes of the imaginary golden age when all students wrote beautifully and loved doing it. http://bit.ly/4mkKKf
