Comments on: The Wet Paint Manifesto http://www.antimodal.com/archives/23 Art, technology, and hype from the desk of Brandon Rickman Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:37:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jean Kearns Miller http://www.antimodal.com/archives/23/comment-page-1#comment-2 Jean Kearns Miller Mon, 05 Jul 2004 13:30:22 +0000 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/23#comment-2 Hi Brandon. I teach writing at a community college and begin my Comp I class with a wet paint sign and the (trick) question, "Is this good writing?" I usually compare it with something like: "Because this wall has recently been painted it is necessary for you to avoid contact with it in order to protect your clothes from stains." Point being fluent sentence-writing is sometimes bad writing. Blah-blah-blah. So I come upon your wet paint manifesto and I find it addresses whether good writing--like the wet paint sign--can really be good if it's misleading. Would you mind my using it in my course pack? I can't pay you anything and I get no royalty from the course pack. If yes, how would you like to be acknowledged? I mean other than "Printed by permission of the author." (Any PR message?) Let me know. Jean at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan Hi Brandon. I teach writing at a community college and begin my Comp I class with a wet paint sign and the (trick) question, “Is this good writing?” I usually compare it with something like: “Because this wall has recently been painted it is necessary for you to avoid contact with it in order to protect your clothes from stains.” Point being fluent sentence-writing is sometimes bad writing. Blah-blah-blah. So I come upon your wet paint manifesto and I find it addresses whether good writing–like the wet paint sign–can really be good if it’s misleading. Would you mind my using it in my course pack? I can’t pay you anything and I get no royalty from the course pack. If yes, how would you like to be acknowledged? I mean other than “Printed by permission of the author.” (Any PR message?) Let me know.
Jean at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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