University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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Tom McDonald Tom McDonald Tom McDonald A . Vs.- g; If you turned this loose on the Gettysburg Ad- dress, you d get some odd results. And we wouldn't want to change one iota of that, she said. Borthick was supervisor of User Services in the computer center at UT from 1974 to 1982. -by Jeff Heck

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14 F a I 1 It's a common problem in technical writing, said Faye Borthick, assistant professor in accounting. Accounting students, for example, have been recognized nationally for 20 years as needing to develop greater proficiency in writing and oral skills for their future jobs, she said. Their writing problems come from an emphasis on numbers in upper division classes, Borthick said. One possible solution is to use an automated language analysis program to teach students about their writing habits. The software, made up of thousands of rules incorporated into a program, checks the length of sentences, the voice tactive or passivei, the level of complexity tthe grade-level of the languagei and how much jargon is included. HAccounting is 10 percent numbers and 90 percent what you make them mean, so students need to learn to present their work, she said. Some students resist learning to write well because they see accounting as an area to Hself-select out of writing. They also resist advice from non-English teachers on writing, perhaps because they feel the professors are biased, she said. The program helps direct attention to simple problems, she said, which is the first step in correcting them. It works only on syntax, or the mechanics of the writing, and not on the semantics, or meaning. Vol Defensive standouts Kelly Ziegler MW, and Tracy Hayworth t88t, made life tough on the Colorado State Rams in the home opener on September 5th. Running backs Reggie Cobb 04L and William Howard 05L together contributed 18 points to the Vol total of 49 points, as the Vols Soundly defeated the Rams 49-3. One week later, the two backs, along With their teammates, rout the Mississippi State Bulldogs 38-10 at Scott Field. Tom McDonald h 11 ii Tom McDonald Tom McDonald Tom McDonald

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16 F a I I Hodges Library reopens HA5 he saw it, and as he taught us, a library is not just a musty old place for archives to be pored over by a few scholars. It is a living organism which always must grow..., Those words were written by former UT President Dr. Andy Holt as he described John C. Hodges's thoughts on libraries. Hodges, a UT English professor after whom the first Hodges library, and the newly opened second edition is named, would surely applaud the growth of the UT library system that resulted in the new structure. The new library has six floors with 350,000 square feet of floor space. It contains 40 miles of book- shelves with a capacity for 2 million volumes. The original Hodges library had 100,000 square feet and housed 150,000 volumes. The second edition Hodges Library took 30 months of construction and $28.5 million before it opened for the 1987 fall quarter. The structure was offically dedicated on Sept. 25, 1987, making it the largest library in Tennessee, and according to a UT spokesman, the most modern library in the South. -by Tom McDonald The John C. Hodges library.