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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