Because of students' significant confusion over the use of affect and effect, I present this table and these examples to them at the start of the semester. I believe I have fewer affect/effect errors than I used to see... of course, I could be fooling myself.
Noun Verb
Affect Emotional State To Influence
Effect Result of an event To bring about or Accomplish
Affect Noun: Jims affect was positive in reading the students papers.
Affect Verb: Vera affected people with her jovial style.
Effect Noun: The effect of the antibiotic was to cure the infection.
Effect Verb: Hard exercise effected a change in muscle mass in Harold.
We do tend to get the students after freshman composition (excepting those
teaching an intro psych course), meaning it is particularly frustrating to see
these errors. Imagine, however, being that freshman composition teacher. I'm
surprised any of them have any hair left.
Paul C. Bernhardt
Department of Psychology
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland
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From: tay...@sandiego.edu [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu]
Sent: Mon 8/10/2009 3:27 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] word confusions
Ah! in that case:
affect
effect
as verb
and as noun
All wrong:
The hot weather does not effect me.
The new policy took affect yesterday.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu
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>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:35 -0400
>From: "Serafin, John" <john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu>
>Subject: Re: [tips] word confusions
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
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>Flout vs. Flaunt.
>
>One of my English Dept colleagues caught me on this one in a committee report
>that I had drafted.
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>I'll leave it to Tipsters to see if they can provide correct examples of the
>usage of these words before I give that English Prof's examples.
>
>John
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>John Serafin
>Psychology Department
>Saint Vincent College
>Latrobe, PA 15650
>john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu
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