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...assumed that every preceptor in theExpository Writing Program be seriously engaged inwriting prose," Marius wrote in a January 29, 1990memo to teachers. "The fundamental policy of thisprogram is that the best teachers of writing arethose who write themselves...
...excitement of the Harvard Crimson is best exemplified by its newsroom: desks crashed together, telephones screeching in the background, the ubiquitous tapping that results in electronic words which will result in inky newsprint prose the next...
While offering provocative insights on campus feminism, The Morning After is crippled by clunky prose and Roiphe's self-absorbed, sometimes jarringly cynical tone. A Princeton graduate student, Roiphe relies heavily on personal anecdotes in this book, resulting in an uneasy mix of research and reminiscence...
...nothing else, the Gore team has produced the most readable, at times almost breezily written, federal document in memory. Sample prose: "It is almost as if federal programs were designed not to work. In truth, few are 'designed' at all; the legislative process simply churns them out, one after another, year after year." Which leads into a penetrating analysis -- confirmed and supplemented by many other experts -- of just what is wrong with the government...
Some people never recover from reading Tom Wolfe. Not the white-suited dandy who lit a bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...