Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/25

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Subject: [Leica] declining quality of writing
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Fri Jun 25 19:03:38 2004

on 6/25/04 9:52 AM, Karen Nakamura at mail@gpsy.com wrote:

> Having anthropologists teach writing is also not the greatest idea.
> The days of Malinowski and Mead are over, most anthropologists
> (including myself) couldn't write to get themselves into a potlatch.
> But in our defense, every department has to teach freshman writing --
> even the physicists and economists!
> 
> Such is the modern liberal arts college.
> 
> Karen Nakamura

Even engineers?  The concept horrifies me.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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