Thursday, March 15, 2012

Censorship

Annotated Research

Question: What percentage of books which people objected to were removed or restricted?

Answer: [English department chairs in Arizona] “…reported that about 25 percent of objections to books resulted in removal or restrictions of the books.” DD Melichar. 1988. P. 222.

Comment: That’s a higher “success” rate than I would have expected. RayS.

Title: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Ed. JD Marshall and RK Durst. Research in the Teaching of English (May 1989), 208-222.

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