Re: Off topic: educational methods

[George Scithers Owlswick@xxxxxxxx]

As an experienced, working editor, I find I need to brush up on grammar and
spelling from time to time -- and when I do, I reach for Strunk & White,
the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the Elements of Editing, and the
like.

George Scithers of owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Distefano" 
To: "XyWrite List" 
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: educational methods


>
> Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Fri, 14
> Mar 2003 17:18:20 -0500
>
> Patricia:
>
> > These are mature editors taking the course as a brush-up or
> > "continuing education," not timid undergrads.
>
> Are the assignments sufficiently edifying? Is the silence perhaps a
> polite way of communicating boredom? This may be one of those times
> when you're the master of your fate.
>
> To be frank, I have trouble with the notion of a group of
> experienced, working editors *needing* a grammar brush-up. Rather
> as improbable as college math instructors brushing up on 9th grade
> algebra -- aren't these concepts in the air they breathe all day,
> every day?
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
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>