The other problem is that neither the MLA nor ERIC ( the real source of info about writing rearch) will cover Canadian material. For example, we cannot get them to list articles in Technostyle. I don't know if Henry has discovered the same problem for Textual Studies in Canada or not. It is most provoking. At 10:56 AM 2/22/99 AST4ADT, Russ Hunt wrote: >This is a very interesting observation: > >> I just came home from the library at Ohio State and was noticing in >> the MLA biblio. the lack of materials about writing instruction in >> Canada. It's as if "writing" only meant published poetry and >> fiction etc., not the writing that students do. > >I think this is true. I used regularly to make a distinction >between writers and Writers, and writing and Writing, which I think I >was making because I'd come to Canada and heard that capital W, which >wasn't so commonly there in the US. > >It sounded like this: "Are you a writer?" "No, I'm not a Writer." >"I mean, do you write." "Well, yes, but I don't Write." > > -- Russ > > __|~_ >Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Aquinas Chair >St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424 >Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 >E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] > \ / > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Catherine F. Schryer Dept. of English University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (519) 885-1211 (ext 3318)