Catharine
I agree that what you label the Canadian trend in rhetoric makes no sense. =
My training comes from the staters, Univ So Cal's Rhetoric, Linguistics =
and Lit Program specifically, so I bring a background and a bias with me. =
I find myself on alien turf around here. I think much of the clinging-to-h=
andbook-grammar-correction rhetoric I find around me, many colleagues are =
from Queens or York backgrounds, comes from exposure to nothing else. =
Even the lit education seems to have come in large-lecture delivery. I =
suspect this is a do what you are most comfortable with because anything =
else is threatening precedent.
The more draft-driven workshop comp courses we can put in place now, the =
more chance of any change. =20
Rhonda Schuller
University College of the Fraser Valley
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