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Worrisome yet encouraging at the same time.
I'm all for having people doing longer writing samples. Not just the sandwich-y style of opening, three middle paragraphs/arguments, conclusion style of 'essays' that everyone practices for some sort of 'assessment' test, but actual longer papers that I'd want to see - take the class of students to a library, and let them draw references from there... as opposed to whatever passes for the current standards of sampling critical writing.
In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers
By SAM DILLON
About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released on Thursday.
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I'm all for having people doing longer writing samples. Not just the sandwich-y style of opening, three middle paragraphs/arguments, conclusion style of 'essays' that everyone practices for some sort of 'assessment' test, but actual longer papers that I'd want to see - take the class of students to a library, and let them draw references from there... as opposed to whatever passes for the current standards of sampling critical writing.
In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers
By SAM DILLON
About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released on Thursday.
( Read more... )