https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/24/composition-instructors-report-uptick-intentional-use-single-quotation-marks

This piece by Colleen Flaherty is in two parts. The opening part describes
an article that appeared in Slate, "by Andrew Heisel, a New Haven,
Conn.-based writer and occasional part-time English professor" (see "Single
Quotes or Double Quotes? It's Really Quite Simple." --
http://slate.me/1uP1VDG).

After recounting Heisel's piece and its reception, Flaherty turns to folks
like us, some of them on one of these lists no doubt. Here's a sample
excerpt of that turn:

<quote>

*Writing Professors Respond*

Christopher Thaiss, the Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Professor in
writing at the University of California at Davis, said there’s been no
surge in single quotation use among his students. (Although he said most of
them do practice – probably unconsciously – the British style of putting
their additional punctuation outside of quotation marks, which he called
more “logical.”) But then again, he added “I'm not a stickler for either
double or single quotes.”

“Frankly,” Thaiss said, “I'm much more concerned about whether students use
quote marks at all when they cite passages from other writers,” to avoid
unintentional plagiarism.

Dan Melzer, reading and writing coordinator at California State University
at Sacramento and author of the recent *Assignments Across the Curriculum:
A National Study of College Writing
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/21/study-examines-professors-writing-assignments-students>,
*was equally unfamiliar but descriptivist.

*“*I haven't seen this trend in my students' writing,” he said. But where
it is happening, "I don't think it's anything to be alarmed about.”

</quote>


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