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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