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who claims to have been a teacher of writing and
composition, writes:
> the use of "Free writes" is much more productive in getting students
> comfortable with and competent at the toolkit of wordsmithing than
> emphasizing strict topic-sentence/paragraphing/outlining as the only way to
> make sense in words.
>
> the parallels with language learning are inevitable: all children learn
> their native language and speak in complete utterances before being taught
> any grammatical schema.
>
> thus, all students *can* learn to write [make speech into readable prosody]
> if given technique & tools & enough latitude to channel their creativity
> into various structures, paragraphs among them, sure.
My own view, I'm sorry to say, is that this is the sort
of woolly thinking and haphazard writing that has
cheated many youngsters out of a decent education.
If anyone wonders why I would say such a thing,
you could start by looking up "prosody" in the dictionary.
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
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