The More Things Change (III)

During the past few years many of our staff have become concerned about the quality of written and spoken English of our students. This concern is, in a large part, the outgrowth of our graduate program and the realization that advanced students lack, not merely good writing technique, but even an appreciation of the necessity for expressing themselves clearly. They feel that if writing doesn't come easy--and few of us of whom this is true--that it is impossible. They don't see the need for rewriting and polishing.

Professor Wilbur L. Bullock, Acting Chairman of the Department of Zoology (UNH), as qtd. in the Annual Report of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (UNH), 6/30/1952