“Students can’t write clean English sentences because they are not being taught what sentences are.” At least, according to Stanley Fish, dean emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago they can’t. In Fish’s column in the New York Times, he clearly communicates his belief that in writing, “Content is a lure and a delusion, [...]
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Blog 4: Fish-in-a-Box
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Weblog 3: Dumbed Down
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“Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down.” At least that is what 77 year old former Yale University Professor Harold Bloom believes. In what one might call a passionate, expressive and opinionated column in the Los Angeles Times, Professor Bloom explains his firm position when it comes to [...]
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