Well. I'll contribute the title anyway.

'Strunk and White are Dead'

I was always partial to the Fowler brothers anyway. Meatier and
with a sense of humo(u)r.

Mark

On Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:15 AM, "Geoffrey Layton"
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As much as we all like to beat up on Strunk and White, they are
alive and well and featured guests in a recent Career Builders
essay on resume writing that got extra distribution as a link on
today's msn.com main news page (see below).

  [1]http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-2721-Cover-Letters
  -Resumes-The-elements-of-résumé-style/?SiteId=cbmsnhp42721&sc_
  extcmp=JS_2721_home1?gt1=23000


The point is this - instead of continuing to rail against them,
should we not be using what makes them so popular?  I'd suggest
that at least part of the reason for their long lived success is
the very prescriptivism that has been so thoroughly debunked in
the academy. In other words, people (and perhaps our students
are part of this ubiquitous "people" group) like to know that
there is a right and wrong about grammar. And my guess is that a
very large percent of students entering any composition class
will list "improve my grammar" at or near the top of their list.

So is there any way that we academic grammarians can become the
new Strunk and White (NOTE TO CAREER BUILDERS - THEY'RE DEAD!).
Geoff Layton

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References

1. http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-2721-Cover-Letters-Resumes-The-elements-of-r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9-style/?SiteId=cbmsnhp42721&sc_extcmp=JS_2721_home1?gt1=23000
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