write like a doctor?

[Dennis Baron]

In the current Chronicle of Higher Education, Rachel Toor finds we
have once again failed to teach writing and she reiterates the tired
advice of Strunk and White (without mentioning them) as the answer:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/06/2009060901c.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en


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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-244-0568
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