Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Strunk and White Set the Standard" by Laura Lisabeth (@lauralhny). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.
Chapter keywords: grammar, literacies, Standard English, style, writing handbook
Laura Lisabeth is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University (SUNY). Her current research is the racial/political/cultural history of The Elements of Style and other such popular cultural influences on our ideas about English language usage. She is also interested in how anti-racist ways of thinking about academic writing provide counternarratives to Strunk and White style and look toward a more equitable language culture. Her book manuscript is titled Our White National Discourse: The Elements of Style and Twentieth-Century American Literacies. (2020 update to 2017 bio published in the book)
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