Rhetorical Question

Education used to be known—colloquially, at least—as the Three Rs (readin’, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic). For writers, at least, we can dispense with ‘rithmatic—unless we’re composers of haiku, our only use for ‘rithmatic is getting a word count. And Microsoft Word does that for us, automatically. However, there is another R that should take its place in th…