Clear and Coherent Prose

Diana M. Wegner · Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie · 1993

Writing instruction continues to reflect critically on its recent historical roots in eighteenth an? nineteenth century composition curricula.One common focus of this reappraisal is the ethics of error-what exactly constitutes error, as opposed to issues of style, and what redress should be applied.Writing theorists and instructors now eschew the traditional rote-learning of rules and its corollary-the mean strictures of assessment which attract much energy and person-power in the enterprise of maximizing and deploying the \i~.t gf a\m~hW!errnrs that can be committed by student writers and tallied by ' ' ( r ' 11 " ' '""I 1nn'1

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