Date:    Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:25:22 -0500
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas"  dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: banned words and comp
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<br>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Dennis Baron wrote:
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<br>  Bethany wonders if teaching writing in college is a sign that high schools
<br>  are not doing their job. I don't see it that way. Not that I think high
<br>  schools are doing their job--they definitely are not [snip]
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<br>Thanks, Dennis ... that's what they wanted. It is not that I necessarily
<br>think that high schools are not doing their job ... I think, as you point
<br>out, that we all make some assumptions about what high schools shoud
<br>do, etc. But we don't often talk about what our assumptions are, exactly.
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<br>Re Lynne's comments: I taught a grad course in the College of Educ. a
<br>couple of years ago --what a revelation! I carefully chose what I thought
<br>would be appropriate text material (simpler in many ways even then what I
<br>use in an Intro to Ling 200) -- I discovered that I had pitched it way too
<br>high. )
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<br>Bethany
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