Hi Ron,

I've written a considerably longer analysis of your participation in the 
ATEG list, and may yet send it. However, I have a couple of brief 
comments for now.

You come across as a rule setter, score keeper, and grudge holder.

re. posts where it is perfectly clear to me and most other readers 
(otherwise they'd be joining your chorus of one) what the writer is 
intending to say, you take an overly precious, scholastic reading of 
individual words and phrases, and then assert, claiming the authority of 
the rule setter and official group editor, that the writer is not really 
making sense.

When someone replies to you, your tactic in response is to dig deeper 
into what they've said, sentence by sentence, and criticize them in more 
detail; this is score keeping and grudge holding, an "I have to be right 
whatever the human cost," posture. It's gone from quaint and eccentric 
to not even moderately interesting or productive. Herb is perfectly 
accurate, as well as genteel, when he says that people will begin to 
ignore your posts.

I'd like to suggest, in a friendly way, that when you have personal 
experience related to issues (for the research base that you refer to 
is, to be kind about it, thin at best), write about them in continuous 
prose and point out why they're relevant. But leave off with the point 
by point analysis and response.

All the best,

Paul

P.S. In the tradition of list serves and online groups, all caps is 
definitely interpreted as shouting.


Ronald Sheen wrote:
> Scott Woods writes:
>
>      I would like to make it clear that my questions do not constitute
>     an argument for an approach.  They were presented to find out what
>     others think about how learning works. 
>      
>     (I'M USING CAPITALS TO DIFFERENTIATE WHAT SCOTT AND I SAY).
>

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