Stanley Fish Defends Himself
Posted on September 1st, 2009 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
A lot!
The negative comments on my previous column (there were many positive ones too) fall neatly into two groups, the attacks on me and the attacks on my ideas….
Let’s focus on the ideas…
The main criticism is that my emphasis on teaching forms and only forms (a) leaves out everything interesting, (b) leads to boring classes no student would want to take and (c) has been discredited by the research years ago….
I’ll leave it to you to summarize Fish; he’s such a windbag, I can’t get to the end. Frigging bloggers. Just because you have all the space in the world doesn’t mean you have to fill it.
3 Responses
9/1/2024 8:09 am
If he’d worked harder on it, it woulda been shorter.
9/1/2024 3:31 pm
SE is right. I’m eternally grateful to Jennifer Snodgrass, at Harvard UP, who managed a huge tome I co-edited a few years ago. Jennifer was so strict about word count that I can now cut and slash rapidly from almost any text in no time flat.
9/1/2024 3:31 pm
Omit either “rapidly” or “in no time flat” from the above.