Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:17 +1608

From: "Donald M. Lance" engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Re: Survey of e-usage



I wonder if those who're opposed to ADS lending any kind of support

to a survey on standardizing written/citation forms for references to

electronic exchange of information also want to extend ultimate freedom to

to their students who'd prefer not to have to get so fussy about spelling

etc. After all!

Joan Cook makes a good case for repetition, and what the survey

seems to be about is the citation-like usages that we'd like to be able to

know how to write in a formal paper. And Rudy Troike's caveat is

important: those doing the survey should not go into the endeavor with an

unyieldingly pre-set agenda if they want to be better received among

academics than Pat Buchannan.



Donald M. Lance, University of Missouri

engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]showme.missouri.edu