Reading your kids essays?

davorin
Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:16:38 +0000

When I wrote my essays last year, my parents were allowed to read them, but … and this was important, the topic, the voice, the ideas were all hashed out by myself with editorial guidance from a brilliant writing teacher at my school. By the time I let my mother read them over, those higher order concerns were all dealt with by and large. As a concession, she was the one who did the final proofreading for grammar and usage (I say concession…but my mother is an English Professor with a sharp eye for such things, so it was certainly desirable).

I think it worked out fine. A certain top ten university (it wouldn’t be hard to figure out given where I post) seemed to agree.