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RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)
Subject:RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom) From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:39:59 -0400
> I guess I was lucky. That's exactly what my literature
> courses taught me.
> Our teachers/professors taught us to analyze literature, look at the
> subtext, including the biographical information about the
> author, and to
> develop and express our own thoughts and opinions about the material.
I was in sciences-oriented courses, so I didn't have alot of
EngLit...however, of the two that I did have, one was very dry and I
remember little, and the other one, the professor seems most intent on
pointing out all the phallic symbols in everyone's writing.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign
> I guess I was lucky. That's exactly what my literature
> courses taught me.
> Our teachers/professors taught us to analyze literature, look at the
> subtext, including the biographical information about the
> author, and to
> develop and express our own thoughts and opinions about the material.
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