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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve given up on school English writing. It’s double work to teach them to forget the horrible formulas they are ordered to use for essays, and then to teach them how to write a decent essay. It terrifies me that teachers can see the stupid instruction to put a random unrelated fact at the start and end of the essay (the “hook”) and not immediately delete it.[/quote] The formulas are the worst! It's one thing to teach a 5-paragraph essay, but they are now having them write each sentence of the paragraph according to a formula. And depending on the teacher, the formulas are different. They are so detailed and structured that it goes from being helpful to making it impossible to actually write anything of substance. It's the written version of paint-by-numbers. And that hook thing drives me nuts! You don't put a "hook" in a research paper about the Holocaust![/quote]
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