A longer, completer, and duller version of these remarks will be published
in Fall, 1981, in Working Papers: A Teacher's Observation on Composition
(Scott, Foresman).
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References
1.
Quoted in John Dirckx, M.D., Dx + Rx: A Physician's Guide to Medical Writing (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1977), p. 51.
2.
Ibid., p. 50.
3.
These two bad sentences I borrowed from Joseph Williams, "Defining Complexity," College English, 40 (February, 1979), 597, 601. The rewrites are mine.
4.
See Mary Hiatt, Artful Balance: The Parallel Structures of Style (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1975).
5.
Quoted in Jacques Barzun, Jacques Barzun on Writing, Editing, and Publishing (University of Chicago Press, 1971), p. 67.
6.
John Kenneth Galbraith, "Writing, Typing, and Economics," Atlantic Monthly (March, 1978), pp. 103-105.
