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Re: I'm gonna strangle my English 101 professor!

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From: Jon McCulloch
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 09:28
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Dale Keiger (dek@resource.ca.jhu.edu) wrote:
: Jesus Christ, stop bitching and write. Your teacher might want to force you
: to crawl word by word over your composition, which is what you ought to be
: doing anyway. Said teacher might be a lot smarter than you think, and
: probably is. If you think this is hardship, you're never going to last as a
: writer anyway.
: -- 

All true, but not very helpful in solving the poor man's problem.

None of the above is prevented by using a word processor.

If you think the only way to write is to do it by hand, then there are a
lot of crippled writers out there who might just prove you wrong.

Jon.
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