| Will he be playing football in college?
If not,encourage him to do more reading. He'll have more time for it.
My brilliant brother in law had trouble with transitions between paragraphs when he wrote. I couldn't imagine why, but then I have always been a reader and so I absorbed that technique from my reading without realizing it.
I think a big part of the problem is that he's been busy with non-academic pursuits for a long time, and it's understandable that academic skills are a little lacking as a result.
I would send him to the easier school, and have him take a course in journalism and get him to write articles about football for the school newspaper. Maybe he can minor in journalism, or else audit several journalism courses--the purpose is so that he practices writing, not that he get a grade. The more he writes, and about something he knows about and loves, the more likely he is to enjoy it and pick up better writing skills. |