UBC student writes 52,438 word architecture dissertation with no punctuation — not everyone loved it
Despite the attention grabbing headline there was infact a serious purpose behind the flagrant disregard for convention, as Patrick Stewart, the author of the controversial PhD dissertation, says,
in my defense my style of writing is not laziness or lack of knowledge of proper usage of the english language it is a form of grammatical resistance as a deconstructionist in the manner of many writers especially american poet ee cummings he graduated with a master degree in english from harvard university and they called him experimental and innovative not words likely to be used to describe an indigenous writer who breaks all the rules of writing (the behavioural ethics board at the university of british columbia suggested that i hire an editor as it appeared that i did not know the english language) times though they are changing
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