What is perhaps more alarming than the piece itself is in the final author
attribution:
"The audience chose this topic for his session, and made a number of useful
suggestions for modifying it."
Is this writer trying to dodge responsibility by pointing out that others
are as ill-informed as he is? Such claims cast aspersions on democracy.
Rob Irish
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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:39 AM
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Subject: Re: University Affairs article on writing at universities
Please do draft a response, Susan, on behalf of the Inkshed community
(and other sensible people). I was appalled at the incoherence and lack
of evidence in the piece. It had all the characteristics of first-draft
writing!
Margaret
Susan Drain wrote:
> I was going to suggest that I try to draft a response and then post it
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> could do, if you want to let me go ahead. Susan
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