ohmyrichard
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- May 24, 2008
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- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
Dear teachers,
This afternoon I read in an academic paper on Latino Studies this paragraph beginning with " Daniel Cooper Alarcon(1997) calls the legend of Aztlan, '[p]erhaps the most enduring legacy of the Chicano movement''(10). Cooper Alarcon asserts that...." When I came to "Cooper Alarcon" at the begining of the second sentence of the quote, this "middle name plus the last name" reminded me of something my doctoral class teacher told me and my classmates last semester. He said that we cannot say "Allan Poe" for "Edgar Allan Poe" and that only the full name "Edgar Allan Poe" or simply the last name"Poe" are allowed. Now the above quote got me confused again. You see, in the quote, the author of the paper Dr. Brenda Watts, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, uses "Cooper Alarcon" for the full name of "Daniel Cooper Alarcon" when she mentions the quoted author's name for the second time in the second sentence of this paragraph. I cannot find out whether this professor has made a mistake or my professor is wrong in his assertion. Edgar Allan Poe or Allan Poe or Poe--that is the question, but not for a native speaker of English or a nonnative whose English is better than mine.
Thanks.
Richard
This afternoon I read in an academic paper on Latino Studies this paragraph beginning with " Daniel Cooper Alarcon(1997) calls the legend of Aztlan, '[p]erhaps the most enduring legacy of the Chicano movement''(10). Cooper Alarcon asserts that...." When I came to "Cooper Alarcon" at the begining of the second sentence of the quote, this "middle name plus the last name" reminded me of something my doctoral class teacher told me and my classmates last semester. He said that we cannot say "Allan Poe" for "Edgar Allan Poe" and that only the full name "Edgar Allan Poe" or simply the last name"Poe" are allowed. Now the above quote got me confused again. You see, in the quote, the author of the paper Dr. Brenda Watts, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, uses "Cooper Alarcon" for the full name of "Daniel Cooper Alarcon" when she mentions the quoted author's name for the second time in the second sentence of this paragraph. I cannot find out whether this professor has made a mistake or my professor is wrong in his assertion. Edgar Allan Poe or Allan Poe or Poe--that is the question, but not for a native speaker of English or a nonnative whose English is better than mine.
Thanks.
Richard