Yet another reason why my year of living and working in New York City is the fine people that I met and worked with there, including Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978), the author of Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (Oxford University Press, 1977) and Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022), the author of Academic Turmoil: The Reality and Promise of Open Education (Anchor/ Doubleday, 1980).
Now, on July 4, 1976, before I walked from my apartment in the Chelsea area of Manhattan over to the Hudson River to watch the Tall Ships, I was writing an essay that subsequently was published as "Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz" in College English, volume 38 (1976-1977): pp. 443-459. Ong, who had served as the president of the Modern Language Association in 1978, subsequently discussed my article in his most widely reprinted article "Literacy and Orality in Our Times" in the ADE Bulletin: A Journal for Administrators of Departments of English [= ADE] in American and Canadian Colleges and Universities, serial number 58 (September 1978): pp. 1-7. (The ADE is a subset of the MLA.)
Both my article "Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz" and Ong's article "Literacy and Orality in Our Times" are reprinted in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers, edited by Theresa Enos (Random House, 1987, pp. 27-44 and 45-55, respectively).
Ong's article "Literacy and Orality in Our Times" is also reprinted on An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Hampton Press, 2002, pp. 465-478).
For further information about my years of teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth (1987-2009), see my UMD homepage: www.d.umn.edu/~tfarrell
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