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Subject:The state of State From:Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:29:12 -0500
<rant>
So I'm doing some freelance editing for a fellow whose interest is the
politics of his homeland. He writes analytic white papers for
circulating in the emigré community and he wants them to communicate
clearly. English is not his first language. Fine.
Here's the problem: the guy is a grad student (not in political science)
at A Major State University Better Known For Football. The last paper he
sent me was accompanied by a note that said, "It has already been
reviewed by one of my English professor." By that I take it to mean that
someone on the English faculty--perhaps not a full professor--at said
Major State University did a first-pass edit of the document. In
principle that suggests that, at minimum, the manuscript I received
should not be riddled with glaring errors in grammar and spelling.
I don't mind making the corrections--that's part of what the author is
paying me for. I mind that the Major State University (and please don't
think I'm coyly identifying a school whose initials are MSU, because
that is not the case) has people on its English faculty whose standards
are so low for the writing of graduate students that they don't bother
to correct the most obvious solecisms. No wonder we have such a glut of
people with advanced degrees who can't string seven English words
together to make a well formed utterance.
</rant>
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