even. So Linda thumbed through the paper to see what she had to to change it. Ms. Wonderful, the teacher, had done her usual job: She had caught a comma splice, four minor punctuation errors, two spelling errors, three AWK's, and a brace of DANG's. In the few minutes left in the period, during which the students were encouraged to do whatever you want to do, but stay in your seats and keep the noise down, Ms. Wonderful did some needlepoint and Linda, who had a facile hand and had gotten A's in penmanship all through elementary school, whipped through her paper, completely revising it in accordance with Ms. Wonderful's instructions