Columns: Tag – Malcolm Gladwell
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Writing Quips and Tips
Can writing be taught?
A controversial article in the New York Times recently took university-based writing courses in America to task … for not actually teaching students to write.
Stanley Fish wrote that ”instruction in composition was not their focus. Instead, the students spent much of their time discussing novels, movies, TV shows and essays on a variety of hot-button issues — racism, sexism, immigration, globalization.
“These artifacts and topics are surely worthy of serious study, but they should have received it in courses that bore their name, if only as a matter of truth-in-advertising.”
It was his opinion that many students who had gone through composition classes could not actually write.
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