Fabricating and prefabricating language: Troubling trends in libraries

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 433-438

  Candido, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0001573241     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1333(99)00075-0     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Virginia C. Bacon, Good English (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1928).
2. Susan Dodson, "Your Paper: Its Preparation and Presentation," ACRL CE 506 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 1986).
3. Jana Bradley & Larry Bradley, Improving Written Communication in Libraries (Chi-cago: American Library Association, 1988).
4. Joan Giesecke, "Preparing Research for Publication," Library Administration and Management 12 (Summer 1998): 134-137.
5. Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline (New York: Caedmon, 1959).
6. Dodson, "Your Paper," p. 2.
7. Edwin Newman, A Civil Tongue (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), pp. 70-71.
8. Kathryn Hammell Carpenter, "Competition, Collaboration, and Cost in the New Knowledge Environment," Collection Management 21 (2) (1996): 35.
9. Jana Bradley & Larry Bradley, Improving Written Communication in Libraries, p. 65.
10. Andrea Morris Gruhl, "Oxford Modernizes the Ancient," American Libraries 28 (November 1997): 59.
11. "Mission, Themes, and Strategies: Program Themes," Material from meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (June 1, 1990), p. 2.
12. Sylvia Adamson, "The Language of Language," Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 1992), p. 9.
13. William Zinsser, On Writing Well (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), p. 15.
14. Donna Woolfolk Cross, Word Abuse (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979), p. 59.
15. William H. Wisner, "Back toward People," Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (July 1994): 132.
16. Lois Jennings, "Regrowing Staff: Managerial Priority for the Future of University Libraries," The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3(3) (1992): 4.
17. For a more in-depth observational study of specialized language used in academe, read Patricia Nelson Limerick, "Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Prose," The New York Times Book Review (October 31, 1993), pp. 3-4.
18. Philip C. Howze & Felix E. Unaeze, "All in the Name of Service: Mediation, Client Self-Determination, and Reference Practice in Academic Libraries," RQ 36 (Spring 1997): 430.
19. Cross, Word Abuse, pp. 64-65.
20. Newman, A Civil Tongue, p. 19.
21. Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 6.
22. Dennis B. Quinn, "The Information Age: Another Giant Step Backward.," Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (July 1994): 135.
23. See articles in this symposium by William H. Wisner, Dennis B.Quinn, Edward Shreeves, Sara Fine, Donald Davis, Jr., James P. Niessen, & Marina Snow in Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (July 1994): 131-143.