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2 unusual facts about Mina P. Shaughnessy


Errors and Expectations

Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing, published in 1977 by Oxford University Press, was the first book-length investigation of writing problems experienced by under-prepared college freshmen.

Perhaps the central and most important observation Shaughnessy makes is that there is a pattern to student error.


Cui Shu

:zh:崔述 (1740-1816), Qing dynasty textual scholar, the "patron saint" of iconoclasm in China (E.L.Shaughnessy)


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