Allison,
   You can certainly use whatever you want of mine. The only concern might
be that it not be misleading out of context, but I will trust your
judgement.  If in doubt, you can send me something ahead of using it.
I'm glad to hear you are rethinking your understanding.  >

Craig

All,
>
> I've been keeping up with most of the discussions on the LISTSERV in order
> to increase my knowledge of the scholarship and ideas concerning the
> teaching of English and especially grammar. Some of the discussions about
> English grammar have really caught my attention, and I'm hoping that, with
> your permission, I may be able to use some of the material here in places
> in
> my thesis. I have narrowed the material I would like to use down to a few
> authors, and I would like to ask their permission to use their words or
> ideas in my paper:
>
> Craig Hancock, Paul Doniger, Jan Kammert, Bruce Despain, Cynthia (I regret
> that I don't know your last name), and Marshall Myers.
>
> I can send the passages I would especially like to use to any of you if
> you
> wish to look at it and make sure I'm not using something you'd rather not
> have printed. These passages run back to February of this year. Also, for
> the others posting on the list, please understand that I am not trying to
> be
> selective in whom I have chosen. Many of these discussions (or at least
> the
> ones I understood :) ) have further enlightened me about English in
> general,
> and I think I can now safely say that I am a recovering prescriptivist,
> and
> much humbled in my continued work in my university's writing center.
>
> Thank you all again for allowing me to hang out, as it were; even though I
> don't post often, I still read and try to understand. I appreciate that
> you
> treat me as a peer of sorts even though I am not as well versed in the
> discipline; it means a lot.
>
> - Allison Rose
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