I have a friend who works at as a tutor for English at our city college. She is a walking thesaurus, and quite gifted in the English Arts. After working for only two weeks, she has sent me this amusing email that I feel compelled to share, for hilarity's sake.
Perhaps this sounds a bit snippy but... I hereby declare this the (mine anyway) first two commandments of tutorial sessions...for those receiving the help:
Thou shalt take responsibility for, as you say, "f******* up" thine own paper and not accuse he/she who has come to thy timely aid of either doing this or greatly contributing to that huge linguistic SNAFU thou fully intendest to submit for a grade two hours hence.
Thou shalt not argue lengthily and boisterously with thy tutor over the "rightness" of thy grammatical errors. Verily, thou canst not write the way thou speakest--there are rules and precedents!
That's all...done venting...but very soon I may, indeed, have my own decalogue!
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