Unintended intentions?

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Philip Emery is a freelance writer and lecturer who has published/broadcast stories, verse, drama, academic papers and writing articles in the UK, US, Canada and Europe.

He has taught courses in writing and drama for various universities, colleges, and educational organisations and holds an associate lectureship with Keele University. He has been invited to give one-off lectures and workshops to writing groups such as the Lichfield Writers, Wilmslow Writers Circle and a writing group in H. M. Risley. He also taught journalism, short-story writing and scriptwriting for the ‘Writers News’ and ‘Writers Bureau’ correspondence schools.

Notes

1 Caveat: the reader should read what follows as the product of a provincial northern UK writer … 

2 Such inflexibilities, it should be added, differ across the globe.

3 A loaded term, to be sure, connoting an onerous addition to a student’s workload, and admittedly more easily mapped onto the UK or Australian model than the US. However, wherever and whatever writing is produced for (at least in part) purposes of assessment, whether explicitly in the form of a critical addition to the creative, or implicitly as a more ghostly pressure in the ‘wholly-creative’ writing qualification, a yoke of some kind exists?

4 Pun intended, particularly for a provincial UK readership.

5 A visible impression, stain, etc.; a sign, symbol, or other indication that distinguishes something; slang. A suitable victim for swindling –Collins English Dictionary.