The University of West Florida plans to add grammar and math tutorials to its Web site starting this semester. The assistance was originally intended simply to help students brush up on those skills, but university officials realized that just about everyone could use some improvement.
"Language emits a social message and an intellectual message about the sender," Mamie Hixon, director of West Florida’s Writing Lab and an assistant professor of English, told the Pensacola News Journal. "It’s the barometer by which we measure a person’s professional credibility."
The Web lessons will be presented in more than 100 video clips, lasting three to 30 minutes each. The creators hope to make the tutorials easy to understand, and even fun. One of the sections, however, is titled, "Math Is Not a Four-Letter Word," leaving users wondering how they can learn mathematics from a source that doesn’t get its count right. –Dan Carnevale
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