Bill Gates said, “Before reading this book, I took it for ... are not really trying to teach students to write clear sentences. Not anymore. First-semester writing courses now cover rhetorical ...

“It was like, well, I got a sentence ... a high-school writing teacher who has written several books on adolescent literacy. And formulaic instruction will cause some students to tune out ...

And now Hochman, with the help of education writer Natalie Wexler, has written a book. The Writing ... focus on the sentence level that much. Certainly beyond elementary school, students are ...

Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence ...

What I saw disturbed me: a few of my students expressed their ideas well, but most of them couldn’t write clear, grammatically correct sentences. The First Year Writing program at my university ...

Students, in turn, are pre-emptively running their original writing ... she cited from a book, but that’s it. Her professor used a different AI detector, which flagged a sentence Krieger says ...

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to ...

But if middle and high school students are writing poorly constructed sentences, they’ll almost certainly end up writing poorly constructed essays. And while the Common Core demands that ...

Most year 9 students are structuring sentences at a level expected of those ... A review of 10 million NAPLAN year 3-9 writing results and more than 350 persuasive writing samples by the ...