>To Jim Dubinsky,
>O.k., here's an attempt to start some dialogue. I'd like to ban the use
>of the pronoun "you" from all formal composition courses. Comments?
>
>Jim
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Jim and Jim
Didn't we do this some time ago (30 years?).  I used to be pretty
successful in stamping it out by the time my high school freshmen
finished the year, but there seem to be two things that make it nearly
impossible to continue.
 
First, the emphasis on journal writing in elementary and intermediate
schools has made the students I work with much more fluent and much
less discriminating in their written work.
 
Second, I now teach a single semester of composition plus skills and
strategies for school success instead of the year of integrated English
that I used to.
 
Good luck to you in your efforts, I still get jarred by the second
person reference and would like to be rid of it, but for now, my main
concern is helping students to write logical and coherent defenses of
the positions they state at the beginnings of their papers.
 
Tony
 
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