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Re: diffs betw tech and academic writing (was writing samples)
Subject:Re: diffs betw tech and academic writing (was writing samples) From:Chris Welch-Hutchings <chutchings -at- NORDSON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:13:02 EST
Quite honestly, many of the TW instructors I have seen have very little
real world experience as TWs. I even had one who thought the only thing
really important in TW was to never, ever use a passive sentence structure
(under penalty of "F").