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To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:07:13 -0500 Subject: Re Off topic: Query to Editors Message-ID:
- Subject: To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:07:13 -0500 Subject: Re Off topic: Query to Editors Message-ID:
- From: Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:11:03 -0800
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:07:13 -0500
From: Patricia M Godfrey
> This isn't really my field, since I'm primarily a copy editor, but I'd
incline to unambiguous first person, with a statement in the preface or
introduction or some other place up front pointing out that "pars magna
fui" of the things you relate.
Yes. See also _A Handbook for Scholars_ by Mary-Claire van Leunen
(1978 Knopf). Under `What to call yourself' (p. 37-41), the author
discusses -- with good humor -- various options & their consequences.
(I can't think why _Scholars_ isn't more widely known. Of course the
title evokes a line by Wallace Stevens: `Gloomy grammarians in their
golden gowns.' But Mary-Claire is far from gloomy.)