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This first cluster of essays stages out a study of error that has occupied much of my career, one initiated (at least in print) by the CCC essay that carries the name. Why error? The quick answer is that at the end of my graduate career, I was interested in how “everyday” and “ordinary” language (and “everyday and ordinary people” ) could serve the projects of serious, critical thought. I was reading Raymond Williams and Victorian novels, and I was reading and teaching Robert Frost and Richard Poirier on Frost. I was interested in how ordinary language could serve complex and revisionary intellectual projects, and Freshman English seemed like just about the most interesting place a person could be with interests like that.
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Bartholomae, D. (2005). Postscript: The Study of Error. In: Writing on the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8439-5_8
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