The theory talk only bothers me when it's a substitute for thinking.
No, I meant the dozens of recent dissertations I've read that would
have flunked my comp classes. I've also read some good ones.
I know a couple of people who make a good living rewriting dissertations.
At 06:38 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
>Mark Are you just worried abut theory-talk or something else? I've
>just read a dissertation that is really good here. And another that's
>really okay.
>
>On the size of papers required though: whew. I was writing 2000 word
>essays in my history class in Grades 7 & 8, but then I had an
>atypically great teacher for those 2 grades even then....
>
>Doug
>On 18-Jan-09, at 4:15 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>Want to know how bad it's become? Pick at random 5 English
>>dissertations accepted in 1960 and compare them with five in 2005.
>>These are the teachers-to-be.
>
>Douglas Barbour
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>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
>Latest books:
>Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>Wednesdays'
>http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
>
> Dwight D, Eisenhower
> [at a cabinet meeting]
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