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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:43:24 EST From: ELZA TINER <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Please forward this message It is entirely appropriate for REED editors, readers, and writers to be concerned about language. Since completion of the University of Toronto doctoral program in medieval studies, I have held a dual position as a medievalist and as a writing specialist. I enjoy teaching Freshman Composition and Advanced Expository Writing alongside upper-level courses in medieval literature. A question that has long troubled me is why composition studies are considered remote from the "pure scholarship" of medieval studies. Both areas depend on a strong knowledge of rhetoric, be it the "rhetoric" of student papers, of the REED style requirements, of town records, and so on. However, the hardest course I teach, the one which often requires the longest hours of preparation and commentary on student work, is Freshman English. And even though I have been at Lynchburg College for 10 years, seven of them with tenure, I would not want to give up those Freshman English courses. There are our future scholars, medievalists, and, Freshman English teachers! Elza C. Tiner Associate Professor, English Lynchburg College