ENGL110 Lecture 2: "Why Johnny Can’t Write"
9 Sep 2016
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Approaches: personal memories, personal values, questions, dilemmas, problems are raised, new insights, ideas, or thoughts. Popular reason for johnny"s inadequacies is childhood experiences between the first through twelfth: the want to write freely was restricted by error-oriented, comma-chasing, insensitive, nitpicking, english teachers . Want the paper written a certain way that reflected their interests, predetermined concepts, and viewpoints. Not enough writing experiences to begin with: he writes bad because he was never given the opportunity. Ncte"s study: 158 high school whose english department had been identified of outstanding by a variety of criteria: 15. 7% of the time focused on emphasizing composition. No more time is allotted to write because the teachers themselves cannot write: they have also been a freshman before and was not given enough practice of creativity. Biggest issue: teaching teachers how to write and tach writing. Dr. eliot: 1869 the teaching of english in elementary and secondary.
