Memories of Bruce Metzger: When I First Realized I Couldn’t Write
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Memories of Bruce Metzger: When I First Realized I Couldn’t Write
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In my last post I started to resume my recollections of my mentor, the great textual scholar Bruce Metzger. In this post I recall when he first showed me I was a lousy writer. In graduate school different professors have different approaches to evaluating and grading term papers. Some professors are completely anal about it and insist on correcting every mistake, rewriting every sentence, and reformulating every idea.
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