Letters

To the Editor:

In one of those cases of perfect timing, your issue with Dennis Evans' Commentary ( "Technological Progress: An Oxymoron?" Nov. 6, 2002) appeared in my mailbox right after the students in my junior English class and I had discussed their recent work.

I was very excited about the class's project: to research language as it is used in some aspect of culture and produce a Web page for posting on the school's site. It was a multifaceted assignment, involving research, information literacy, presentation skills, and technology. The posted products...