ABSTRACT
In this essay, I feature a self-involved capital B, an impolite pronoun, and a future tense that is rapidly losing touch with reality. There is, perhaps, something odd about these featured characters. Strip them of their mating with human values, substitute evaluations with a disinterested tone, and one has a mere list of textual elements and errors of convention (e.g., a misplaced capital letter, an incorrect use of a pronoun, an inaccurate tense). That is, one has part of the seemingly neutral “basics” of learning and teaching to write.
