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Response to Fred Nickols on latest post

  • 1.  Response to Fred Nickols on latest post

    Posted 11-25-2003 16:46
    Fred wrote:

    "It seems to me that what you've listed are areas where questions could be
    developed but you haven't listed any questions"

    You are right, Fred - each of these can be phrased in the form of a question
    - and I do as the next step. I think I said so in a follow-up post in
    response to the same issue raised by someone. Could not find it, so my apologies for
    not remembering that I should anticipate this objection.

    Fred also said: "You refer to these eight items as "groups of
    considerations," not questions.  Is there something I'm not getting?"

    No, you had it straight - all you have to do is turn them into questions, as
    you correctly observed. I doubt that you need help with that, but one easy
    way to create questions would be to add, at the beginning of each statement:
    "What do we have to do to...' and then fix the grammar. Should you want
    clarification, I will be happy to provide it.

    The reason I like to speak of groups of considerations is because that is
    clearer than to say 'questions with great meaning, as conveyed in subsidiary
    questions'.

    Erwin (Rausch) didacticra@aol.com  and erausch@kean.edu