Correcting Student Writing

If you are puzzled with how to correct a common expression used when speaking, but one that is unacceptable in formal writing, check this out:

"Being..."

Instructors will often see this expression at the beginning of sentences in student papers. Advise students that spoken and written language is different... what is acceptable in one is unacceptable in the other. Students don't often realize there is a difference, and that every class is always an English class!