Procrustes is Alive and Well and Teaching Composition in the English Department. Presented at 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona, 30 September 1995. The paper is dated September 1995, however an earlier 1994 list of references compiled in 1994 by Warfield gives the date as 1993. Warfield used a transparency titled "Procrustes" with a talk given in Mexico City in October 1994, (“Accelerating Productivity of Intellectual Organizations by Systems Methodologies,” invited talk Presented at Assn of Industrial Engineers, Mexico). Rose Warfield dated it September 1995 because that was the date the paper was first presented at a conference. The actual paper is 16 pages long. It is followed on Page 17 with Appendix A, which is an extensive bibliography of Warfield's writings, categorized by subject headings, which he also prints and distributes as a separate report under the title "Warfield Publications on Complexity."

ANNOTATION: The article is on limits of written prose as opposed to graphical representation. Warfield originally wrote the document in 1993, presented it at conferences, and in 1995 printed and distributed an IASIS report with the same title as the conference talk, and same subject matter. He asserts that scientific communication, e.g. the work of writing such things as technical reports describing a complex project or a complex situation is currently hampered by a reliance on prose (or as he calls it "linear prose"). Prose alone can not effectively explain and display the complexities which much be dealt with in most modern management, government and engineering activities. He proposes that education of college students could be improved by training them in the use of graphical representation, that students should not be restricted to use of linguistic prose forms now favored as a communication tool by English professors. The materiel in this report was drawn from a work-in-progress for a book which Warfield has been writing, to be titled "The Work Program of Complexity, from Origins to Outcomes". The chapter in the book which contains this material is titled: "Demands of Complexity on Writing and Research" and a manuscript copy of this book chapter is also stored in the manuscripts file. The book chapter is similar to the report, but does not contain Appendix A, the bibliographic material. There are two Ventura figures, which are in a different directory on the computer, and must be printed separately: on Page 5, Figure 1: "The Linear (Precedence) Structure of English Prose" (VENedv02.chp) on Page 7, Figure 2: "The Parallel (Inclusion) Structure of English " (VENedv03.chp) This paper is one of the seven titles which Warfield assembled into a single tape-bound IASIS monograph under the title "Pre-1995 Essays on Complexity", which he had printed in July 1997 The Essays on Complexity has been scanned by GMU library and entered into Warfield Digital Collection, so all else failing go there to see a copy. .