Application essays and college writing

ellemenope
Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:31:51 +0000

Even when my daughter was attending a famous private school, she got very little actual writing instruction. <<




We were just discussing this at our local high school. The kids at our high school do a lot more critical thinking/review than we did in our day, but they seem to write less. At our high school, the AP English class was known as the “Theme Every Week” class. And the teacher had the time to read every one and write helpful comments on them to help with writing.

The kind of writing that seems to be done in college is the multi-page (10-20 pages) report. I know that our high school doesn’t prepare our kids for that!