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Originally Posted by teh603
I went to one of the most expensive Christian schools in town. Everything I listed earlier was taught as grammar instead of style. People even got a week of grammar detention for failing a special test given every six weeks. Believe me, they were in-freaking-sane about making sure everyone knew the nitpicky details of grammar.
Or maybe we were taught from different manuals of form, meant for different purposes? Everything we were taught was to "prepare" us for writing AP exam essays and papers for higher academia- and probably induce the odd nervous breakdown here and there. Either way, functional creative writing was never on the table.
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I still want to know what grammar manuals were filled with these pronouncements.
Academic writing is a specialized form of writing with more stringent rules.