My favorite one is the claim that having an English degree qualifies someone to be an editor.
ME TOO! I think that's actually my #1 pet peeve as far as equating degrees with knowledge goes. I see so many job announcements for editors that REQUIRE a degree in English, which annoys me because I think I could do the jobs just as well as any English major, but since I've never even taken a college-level English course, I am not at all qualified. It's not as if English majors are the only students required to write using proper grammar.
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Posted by Salmon Ella to academicsecret at 10/04/2006 06:52:50 PM
