Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities - Hardcover
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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing.
There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor...
John Warner is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, a contributing blogger for Inside Higher Ed, and an editor at large for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is the author or coeditor of seven books, including The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing.
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