{"id":301949,"date":"2017-04-03T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/college-students-penalized-for-offensive-words\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:26:21","slug":"college-students-penalized-for-offensive-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/college-students-penalized-for-offensive-words\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students Penalized for Offensive Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Universities penalise undergraduates for ‘offensive’ gender phrases in essays and exams<\/h3>\n
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By Katie french
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April 3, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Essays will be marked down unless they use \u2018gender-sensitive language\u2019, students at a British university have been told.<\/p>\n

Many universities are already advising students and staff not to use \u2018gender-offensive\u2019 terms such as \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019 to describe people that could be either male or female.<\/p>\n

And terms such as \u2018mankind\u2019, \u2018manpower\u2019 and \u2018man-made\u2019 are frowned upon by academics if used in essays.<\/p>\n

But now the school of social science at the University of Hull has gone one step further by threatening to deduct marks from students for using such phrases.<\/p>\n

A document\u00a0sent to students reads: \u2018Language is important and highly symbolic.<\/p>\n

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\u2018In your essay I thus expect you to be aware of the powerful and symbolic nature of language and use gender-sensitive formations.<\/p>\n

\u2018Failure to use gender-sensitive language will impact on your mark.\u2019<\/p>\n

Critics have savaged the move as \u2018linguistic policing\u2019 which damages students\u2019 fluent expression and creativity.<\/p>\n

Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, told The Sunday Times<\/a>: \u2018Usually such threats are implicit rather than spelled out as in the case of Hull.<\/p>\n

\u2018This linguistic policing is used as a coercive tool to impose a conformist outlook. The alternative is to pay a penalty of being marked down.\u2019<\/p>\n

Just last week an American student was penalized for using the term \u2018mankind\u2019 in an essay.<\/p>\n

Cailin Jeffers, an English student at Northern Arizona University, lost a mark for using the word as a synonym for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Universities penalise undergraduates for ‘offensive’ gender phrases in essays and exams By Katie french Daily Mail April 3, 2017 Essays will be marked down unless they use \u2018gender-sensitive language\u2019, students at a British university have been told. Many universities are already advising students and staff not to use \u2018gender-offensive\u2019 terms such as \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}