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- From: mer <MROSE01@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Standard English
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- David and Marcy:
-
- Let me confirm what David just said about "rigidity" in the freshman compositio
- n program. When I first arrived at ASU, accompanying my wife who was beginning
- a two year post-doc in psych., David assigned me four sections of ENG 102, and
- handed me a detailed syllabus which laid out the reader, the kinds of essays
- assigned and so forth. Having had free reign all through grad school (UMich)
- on how to design and run my course, I was annoyed that I was being told how to
- teach my courses.
-
- One week into the semester I saw the wisdom of the design, saw that I was
- quite able to emphasize whatever issues I wanted to do, and saw the justice
- in regulating the content and workload of the freshman composition program
- in light of the enormous range of experience and preparation of those teaching
- it.
-
- Given the size of that program, its impossible to understand how it could be
- done competently any other way.
- knows,
- Besides, as any jazz musician^ a certain amount of restrictions are necessary
- for truly original improvisation.
-
- Rigidity does not necessarily mean stiflement.......mer
-