🚀 go-pugleaf

Or rather, a foremother of composition studies as many of us know them:
that bringer of gold out of Egypt, Our Lady Mina Shaughnessey (sp?) --

I read Errors and Expectations as an undergrad for a course on Teaching
Writing, and the current discussion makes me think that if anything should
be "canonical" in rhet-comp, that book should be it.  Good ideas trapped (no,
I don't want to hear about outmoded transmission ideas of writing; the
metaphor _works_ here.) in "illiterate" prose?  Please turn to page 7 in
your paperback editions.  It may be hard to recognize when the "illiteracy"
is drowning you, but The Miner could see it, and we need to follow her
noble example.
Here endeth the lesson....[yeesh - I'm too young to be curmudgeon-ly
                           Never mind that I can hardly _spell_ it!]


Lili

"Rhet in the Blue Linen Labcoat"