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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has taken Hon English and is in AP seminar. A grades across the board. DC is not a good writer! This is evident from their college essays. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary are all fine. But sentence organization is off and many sentences don’t say anything. They are fillers. What can we do to help before college? [/quote]

One possible approach, if your DC wants to learn to write better:

Subscribe to a print daily paper and have your DC leaf through it every day .

Ask your DC to make an outline of a letter responding to one infuriating article per day.

Have your DC draft a letter to the editor based on each outline as quickly as possible.

Make your DC cut the number of words in each first draft by 50% without taking out many interesting facts or arguments.

For extra credit, try to find an editor let go by a nearby media organization and pay the editor to mark up drafts of some of the letters as if the letters were going to go into the Post or Times. Have the DC rewrite the drafts based on the editor’s notes. [/quote]

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