Declan Murphy wrote:

> Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> > Declan Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm - looks worth investigating. That one was written by a student
> >> (paid), and I'll take our copy down while I write to them.
> >
> > Authored by Thomas A. Stanley and R.T.A. Irving
> > Copyright ゥ 1996, 1998
> >
> > "This project, by Dr. R.T.A. Irving of Kwansei Gakuin University in
> > Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and Dr. Thomas A. Stanley, Department of
> > History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, began as a multimedia
> > CD-ROM project ..."
> >
> > Sounds like there's a student who will receive some serious spanking ...
>
> Looks like it. I've already sent the "Sorry to bother you but, ..." email.
>

My bad. Or good, depending on perspective; actually I thought it'd be the
other way around. My friend's a high school teacher and often uses the
Internet to search for elements of his students' papers. One thing that amazes
me (and him) is that a lot of his students don't realize how odd it looks to
have a paragraph of terrible grammar followed by one that is all but perfect.

John W.