rgheck wrote: > I know a lot of people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a > single person who regularly uses styles.
I do, but that's largely because I'm ornery, and will do things the Right Way even when the tool discourages it. (I use Word for some work documents, and Open Office for some academic documents, when interop is a requirement.) > Students and colleagues send me > papers written in Word all the time, and I'm struggling to remember a > single time any one of them sent me one that used styles. This subject came up today on techrhet, the technology and rhetoric list, and the prevailing opinion seems to be that, yes, students do not use styles, and that training them to use styles would be a good addition to composition curricula. There's also a fair bit of sentiment that getting away from word processors would be nice, but that's not really an option for general-education composition today. Word processing - and specifically Word - is essentially a general-ed skill in itself, in today's job market. In advanced composition and digital-rhetoric classes, many people are teaching other writing tools. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University
