![]() A liberal artist seeks the perfection of the human faculties. Sister Miriam Joseph's book, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, invites the reader into a deeper understanding-one that includes rules, definitions, and guidelines, but whose ultimate end is to transform the reader into a liberal artist. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, "On Language," provide help on diction and syntax to contemporary writers and speakers. ![]() McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English. ![]() Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. ![]()
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