Assignment 35: "Yes/No/Okay, But"

Bryan Garner

35.  Read Chapter Four of They Say/I Say:  "Yes/No/Okay, But" (55-67) and the handout on Quoting from Garner's Modern American Usage (which I distributed in class; an extra copy is in the box of my office door). After you have read the chapter, complete exercise one on page 67 and e-mail it to me; also bring a hard copy to class (to complete this assignment, you'll need to read one of the essays included in the "Readings" section at the back of the text, either:  "Don't Blame the Eater" by David Zinczenko (195-197), "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff (198-205), "Nuclear Waste" by Richard A. Muller (206-213), or "Agonism in the Academy:  Surviving the Argument Culture" by Deborah Tannen (214-220).  Due:  Before class on Friday, March 11th.