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Opinion: A Cure for Bad Teaching of Writing
Washington Post (blog)
Few people are willing to and capable of helping others produce engaging and instructive prose. This problem is particularly acute in our schools, where almost all of us learn to write. I got little instruction before a required composition class my sophomore year of college. The situation has gotten worse since then. Few teachers have enough experience and training to show students what is good writing and what is not. Those who have that skill lack the time to share it with all their students and still have lives.
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