Despite Allen E's declaration that this thread, with its unlikely
subject header, has reached its sell-by-date (that's best by to
Canucks), I can't restrain myself here.
I had asserted that the word verbiage used by Michael Smith to
describe certain TIPS posters carried an insulting
] Canada's early intolerance
Despite Allen E's declaration that this thread, with its unlikely
subject header, has reached its sell-by-date (that's best by to
Canucks), I can't restrain myself here.
I had asserted that the word verbiage used by Michael Smith to
describe certain TIPS posters
Well, I pay little attention to due dates :-)
Hmm. It seems the point, silly as it is, is still not getting across.
I'll try to simplify further...
My point was:
Must a post be in essay format to be well thought out, informative,
and properly referenced?
Put another way, the Essay Hypothesis:
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From: Michael Smith tipsl...@gmail.com
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:20:04 PM
Subject: Re: [tips] Canada's
On 21 November 2010 Michael Sylvester wrote:
I was educated under the British system in my early youth
and writing full sentences and elaborating on ideas were
compulsory. One was judged by the depth nature of one's thinking.
Michael: I fear those more rigorous days have long gone as far as
S. Black responds to this thread with:
...uncharacteristically disagreeable...
I disagree. I don't find the discussion disagreeable, just a discussion.
it's time I expressed an opinion
OK. This must be significant I guess, but I'm not sure why.
'Verbiage' refers to more than just the length of
Given that this uncharacteristically disagreeable thread
concerning whether Allen Esterson's posts are are too long
(although this applies to many others) continues to rage, it's
time I expressed an opinion.
Recent postings on TIPS are unfortunately beginning to remind
me of that famous
I was educated under the British system in my early youth and writing full
sentences and elaborating on ideas were compulsory.One was judged by the
depth nature of one's thinking.Students were also ranked in the subjects
they took and the GCE exams were sent to England to be graded.It is
A postscript to my last post:
John Serafin wrote:
You know, Allen, you regularly remind us not to accept
anything that someone else has written.
What I have written before is rather more specific than this, along the
lines that one should not accept *assertions just because one has read
them
In response to: It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade
through a lot of verbiage particularly on a list-serve
Allen said I find that a rather remarkable comment, on two counts.
First, no one has to wade through any post on this listserv
First the first statement isn't really remarkable
I don't particularly want to prolong this discussion further, given
that some other TIPSters have had their say and evidently no one else
wants to come in on this, but Mike Smith's latest post deserves a
response.
Mike wrote:
In response to: It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade
It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade through a lot of
verbiage particularly on a list-serve.
Perhaps what Chris meant was, instead of essays:
skip the quotes
make it point form with concision
(of course the same criticism could be leveled at M. Palij who also
tends to be an essay
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:41 -0800, John Serafin wrote:
To be as succinct as possible: I agree with Michael Smith here.
Stop the thesis level posts.
Allen can respond for himself. All I want to say is no one on
Tips is obligated to read all of the posts that are made. If one
does read all of
I second Mike Palij's post. If you don't want to read a long, carefully
written post, then don't. No one should chastise a TIPSter who posts an
academic, referenced post, because it's too long.
I love the scholarly expertise that some of our more erudite TIPSters offer.
I love that Allen
First a correction to my last post: It was Palmerston, not Lord
Russell, who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the American
Civil War; Russell was the Foreign Minister. Also: The Google Books
edition *Great Britain and the American Civil War* by Ephraim Douglas
Adams is dated 2006,
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Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance
Christopher D. Green
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:03:01 -0800
Allen Esterson wrote:
Chris Green writes:
Indeed, if you recall your American history class
to the Literature.Vol. 1*, p. 393 note 8: 397)
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Southwark College, London
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Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance
Christopher D. Green
Tue, 16
OK,I agree to Canada's positive spin on immigration.However in the late fifties
and early sixties,a group of Caribbean students staged a demonstration at Sir
George Williams University in Montreal protesting
attitudes and discrimination against the established academic community.All of
those
michael sylvester wrote:
OK,I agree to Canada's positive spin on immigration.However in the
late fifties and early sixties,a group of Caribbean students staged a
demonstration at Sir George Williams University in Montreal protesting
attitudes and discrimination against the established
Allen Esterson wrote:
Chris Green writes:
Indeed, if you recall your American history class, you
may remember that as long as the Civil War was officially
about union, the British sided with the South (for the cotton)
That you may recall this doesn't make it true. Britain was
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