summary of conditions (was Re: PSAT Glitch)

[Herbert Stahlke]

Arnold,

Let me suggest a couple of alternatives that might reach more of the
audience that needs to be reached.  The English Journal is the K-12 journal
of NCTE and often publishes articles and sometimes whole issues on questions
of the teaching of grammar.  And they've published some pretty good stuff,
like a great piece by James Sledd.  It's K-12 teachers who are teaching the
nonsense that this thread has been about, and they're the ones preparing
students for the PSAT.  The other possibility is College English, the
post-secondary NCTE journal.  They, however, are more comp/rhet oriented and
also don't influence K-12 as much.  A piece like this would be very
effective in TEJ.

Herb Stahlke

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Subject: Re: summary of conditions (was Re: PSAT Glitch)


dInIs suggests, and bethany enthusiastically seconds, the
idea that i should write this stuff up for American Speech.
well, of course.

one of those things you don't notice because it's right there
in front of you, i guess.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)