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 > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface > at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/