RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers

Subject: RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers
From: Annamaria Profit <inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:29:05 -0400


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:

>As I've said before, modern English speakers have a grammatical
>neurosis. The prime symptom of this neurosis is a greater concern with
>grammatical correctness than with content.

Not all of us.
My deliverable should be:

1- useful
2- technically accurate
3- what my user and my boss wants
4- on time
5- appealing
6- grammatically correct

Annamaria Profit
E-mail: inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net
URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~inteltek2
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live in peace with everyone." (Romans 12:18)



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