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Re: Re\: Asimov - Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic - Rant?
Subject:Re: Re\: Asimov - Assumptions, the audience and arithmetic - Rant? From:"Michael West" <mike -dot- west -at- oz -dot- quest -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:00:29 +1000
"Jo Francis Byrd" wrote:
>
> Both my daughters (ages 25 and 21) have excellent writing skills, and they
are
> US born and educated. Both were often asked by high school classmates to
edit
> their English papers because they could write and write well. Part of it is
> genetic. I am a writer. My mother and both my sisters are excellent writers
as
> was my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather (I did NOT inherit
my
> father's writing skills, thank God! The man thought in mathematical
expressions
> and the written word eluded him). The kids' father has excellent writing
skills
> as did their paternal grandfather (he was a newspaper reporter for 40
years).
> Only part of it is genetic; they were also taught to write in school. They
had
> to write many, many papers.
>
Do you really mean "genetic," or do you mean "inherited"?
What research is there to support the notion that writing skills
are genetically transmitted?
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