RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers

[Annamaria Profit <inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

John,

Your list makes sense for the professional writer, like the professional 
generally, your skills have moved way past a concern for basic structures.

I'm not sure who called a need for uniform grammar a "neurosis" because I 
haven't kept track.  However, I have some experience teaching English 
writing and composition to disadvantaged students in an urban university, 
and the departmental policy I found there disparaged the teaching of 
grammar entirely.  Their policy was "Ignore grammar, let the student write, 
and eventually he/she will come to a consistent style."  However,they held 
these same students to academic standards of English and grammar across 
disciplines, and punished them with bad grades for not using correct 
grammar.  Now college is a training ground--so why would you introduce 
student--who were already disadvantaged and products of a school system 
that produced graduates, who were illiterate at the rate of one in four--to 
a language discipline but conceal the rules? I saw that "logic" as 
contemptible. Their policy was coming from a stated postmodern, 
deconstructionist impulse to undermine the culture at its base--language.

At 03:44 PM 10/10/02 -0400, John Posada wrote: