Why They Can't Write - Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities Warner JohnPevná vazba
Why They Can't Write - Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities Warner JohnPevná vazba There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college…
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Why They Can't Write - Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities Warner JohnPevná vazba
There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong.Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect.
This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform "writing-related simulations," which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom.
Rather than making choices and thinking
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