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Subject:RE: Writing for a particular audience From:Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:21:42 -0700
Wow, Rachel. And, you also learned to read and type VERY fast somewhere along the line!
Thanks for your parallel history.
It brought more of the Standard English rules back to me: No contractions, we had to severely limit forms of the verb "to be" but some were allowed, huge points off for spelling errors and scratch-outs (in the days of "essays must be hand-written, blah blah blah..." -- no one had spell-correcting typewriters or computers in those ancient times), every paragraph had to have at least three sentence, the rules went on and on.
Well, guess I'm now totally OT. Gotta go before I wax nostalgic about a time that there's no reason for me to miss.
--Emily
At 09:55 AM 6/6/02 +0300, Tsrouya Rachel-BRT022 wrote:
>It sounds like you learned a really great and important lesson. Without badgering you though, I would like to relate my version of highschool writing experiences. ...
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