SLIPs in student essays

Here are some examples of SLIPS that I found in the student essays. I only listed a few of them.

Pot legal

This student has relatively few phonological SLIPs but they repeat. "Mariguana" persists throughout the essay.

The essay's main problems were morphological SLIPs. Sentences like "Jim Gray a Republican" are missing the "is." I think the writer also needs to review plurality as "child's" should be "children's."  In the third paragraph, "this people" needs to be "these people." 

There are multiple cases of syntax SLIPs: "For example I had a friend who would smoke mariguana everyday, eventually he got tired of it because it would not have any effect anymore so he got ecstasy as a try on; got hooked on it and now is an addict who dropped school." There are several ideas in this sentence that are just strung together with commas. I think the student was trying to explain marijuana's role as a gateway drug but fails to mention that. The student just assumes that the reader knew what he or she meant. As a result, I would also categorize this sentence under Pragmatics. The writer also abruptly switches to second person and directly addresses Judge Gray in the last paragraph.

Semantic SLIPs are not as prevalent but they do show up occasionally: "this people developed symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks so why would we want to live in a world like these."

I had trouble with a few sentences. I couldn't determine whether "the symptoms that families within develop are a thousand" was a syntax SLIP or morphological. It sounds like awkward sentence structure but I wasn't sure. There were also some instances where it sounded like "Jim Gray" or "Gray" was randomly inserted into a sentence. Sentences like "Jim Gray but that does not mean …" or "The children Gray are expose to this…" I wasn't sure whether these sentences were morphological SLIPs or semantic SLIPs.

Weird Friday

This student's writing is heavily influenced by spoken language, and as a result, contains multiple morphology SLIPs. Spoken language affects spelling when it comes to words like "damn," "where," "blanket," and "through." There is a case where the student wrote "stared" when it should have been "started" but this could have been a typo. Names of stores such as Foot Locker and Champs should be capitalized. The student misspelled "and" but this could also be attributed to spoken language; the "d" is often hard to hear.

The most persistent and prevalent SLIP were semantic. The writer uses colloquial spoken words and phrases such as "hella" and "I was like." Another good example of colloquialism would be "so then we went to champs and see if they had my size and yupp they did had it so I got my shoes and left to the house." The writer's ability to continue thoughts or start sentences without saying "so" seems to be very limited. It also sounds like the student's knowledge or vocabulary is limited in the sentence "then like at 10pm we left to the airport and got our things register to the thing, after that we were all set to go in."