The Thinking Behind Grammar and Style
Criticizing Creation
In a number of earlier posts (It’s Time to Start Writing; Another Short Revision; First This, Then That), we have looked at the essential difference between the frame of mind we assume in undertaking an initial draft and the very different mind we put on to revise that first attempt. The British novelist E. M.…
A Game Played Seriously
Everywhere and always, decade by decade, the debate about the rules of grammar flares up. Some say there never was a permanent set of rules which everyone agreed upon, others say the rules are there but no one knows them, and still others say, rules or not, no one should tell them how to write…
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