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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: Against educational fads (was: math credit)
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Date: 21 Dec 90 05:44:29 GMT
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In article <12278@hacgate.UUCP> sandberg@ipla01.hac.com (K. M. Sandberg) writes:
>In article <27748@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
<<...
<<I don't think so.  The problem is that students aren't exposed to enough good
<<writing.  If they never see any, how can they possibly produce any?
<<...
<
<I have a "teacher" at C.S.U.N. that makes me look like a GREAT writer.

Complain to your dean.

<If the teachers can't write, how do you expect the students to learn?

I don't.  This is another problem; it's not related to the discussion.

<I think that the above is very true. It is funny that the students
<have to take writing tests, but it appears that the teachers do not.

I know.  There were English teachers in my junior high school in
South CarHELLina who could hardly put together a sensible sentence in
speech or in writing.

					--Scott

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