Gale Crownover This is Me

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1. 1. Amarillo Globe-News: Books: Wylie: A few more Swifties, and a look at plural possessives 05/12/02

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   Published on: 5/13/2002   Last Visited: 5/13/2002

   The former belonged to AC student Gale Crownover when she was, I believe, taking Freshman Composition. Here are notes she wrote to herself in her book: "Good writing is the work of writers who have thoughts and want to express and communicate them; poor writing is the drudgery of those who have nothing to say."
   
   And on the opposite page: "Be intelligent enough to put aside the vanity of intelligence. Relax and listen!" And on the last page, "If the dependent clause follows the independent clause, there is usually no punctuation required unless the clause is concessive (though, although, or a causal, because . . .)." You'll want to remember that. Gale Crownover returned to Amarillo College as a teacher and later became dean. She served the college well for many years.
   
   Back to Woolley, Bracher and Scott: "Despite a long set of complicated rules, in actual practice usage is divided." (It still is.) "Correct. Moses' life." or, to return to the original question, what about "Mrs. Rodgers's Neighborhood"? The House Beautiful writer acknowledges, "Although preferences vary from publication to publication, we are proponents of the final apostrophe 's.'" My opinion?