Richard A. Lanham, a Yale graduate, originally published Style: An Anti-Textbook in 1974 while working as an English Professor at UCLA. The book suggests a new pedagogy for teaching English composition—pleasure in writing. Mr. Lanham is critical of the traditional university approach to writing for clarity and calls instead for verbal patterns, syntax, and the rhythmic combination of words to convey not just meaning, but power, not just information or personal opinion, but distinctive expression. Style: An Anti-Textbook emphasizes using the verbal surface to convey the richness of human experience. ( )