Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research

The labyrinthine project of which this research is a part represents an ongoing activity for us, something we engage in because we like to work together, have a long friendship, and share many interests. As we worked on this error research together, however, we started somewhere along the line to feel less and less like the white-coated Researchers of our dreams and more and more like characters we called Ma and Pa Kettle--good-hearted bumblers striving to understand a world whose complexity was more than a little daunting.