… renewing her ID card.
She had to. One of her
classes meets in the library,
and you can’t get in without
a card.
The process was very quick
and easy, and essentially
involved listening to the
student who processed her
tell her how his writing
courses at GW were “my most
difficult. It is so hard
to write well.”
“Yes,” I said. “It is.”
January 16th, 2015 at 11:48AM
I defer to UD and other English profs on this.
FWIW-I didn’t learn the value of line-by-line and, sometimes, word-by-word editing until after I’d entered the work force as a young technical writer.
“Writing’s easy. The thinking beforehand is really hard.” That’s how I’ll sometimes reply when I get a compliment on something I’ve written.
January 16th, 2015 at 1:38PM
At least he didn’t say it was hard to write super good.