Hi Ron, I've written a considerably longer analysis of your participation in the ATEG list, and may yet send it. However, I have a couple of brief comments for now. You come across as a rule setter, score keeper, and grudge holder. re. posts where it is perfectly clear to me and most other readers (otherwise they'd be joining your chorus of one) what the writer is intending to say, you take an overly precious, scholastic reading of individual words and phrases, and then assert, claiming the authority of the rule setter and official group editor, that the writer is not really making sense. When someone replies to you, your tactic in response is to dig deeper into what they've said, sentence by sentence, and criticize them in more detail; this is score keeping and grudge holding, an "I have to be right whatever the human cost," posture. It's gone from quaint and eccentric to not even moderately interesting or productive. Herb is perfectly accurate, as well as genteel, when he says that people will begin to ignore your posts. I'd like to suggest, in a friendly way, that when you have personal experience related to issues (for the research base that you refer to is, to be kind about it, thin at best), write about them in continuous prose and point out why they're relevant. But leave off with the point by point analysis and response. All the best, Paul P.S. In the tradition of list serves and online groups, all caps is definitely interpreted as shouting. Ronald Sheen wrote: > Scott Woods writes: > > I would like to make it clear that my questions do not constitute > an argument for an approach. They were presented to find out what > others think about how learning works. > > (I'M USING CAPITALS TO DIFFERENTIATE WHAT SCOTT AND I SAY). > 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/