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Re: grant writing

Subject: Re: grant writing
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:23:18 -0800


runar -at- corecomm -dot- net wrote:

After all, we ARE writers, and if we don't maintain standards among
ourselves, where will it end?
In speaking the language of our readers, perhaps?

Of course, that is one of the signs of the ends of days, along with two-headed calves and rains of blood ;-)

If grammar made the writer, then over two hundred years of prescriptive grammar would have raised the general quality of writing - at least among the educated. However, there is no evidence of that whatsoever. In fact, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster and their contemporaries all seemed to stumble along quite well without a decent dictionary or prescriptive grammar to crib from.

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