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Article: Who cares about writing? We do!
- Article from:
- University Affairs
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Assn of Universities & Colleges of Canada Jun/Jul 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A writing studies professor offers a spirited reply to a rhetorical question from an associate dean of graduate studies
Those of us in the field of writing studies are delighted to find a positive response to the question "Who cares about writing, anyway?" (University Affairs, April 2008) We are more used to complaints about our students' deficiencies, and faint hopes that someone somewhere (the schools? the writing centre? the English department? divine intervention?) will rid the university of the plague of error, the distraction of disorganization, the scourge of non-standard usage, oh, and while we're at it, could we solve the problem of plagiarism, too?
So it's a pleasure to read Sunny ...