Oml editing people’s papers in school was the most disappointing thing. Writing ended up being like my ace subject in college whether it was persuasive or technical, though I never had to take super advanced writing beyond some specialized writing courses for accounting. People would write incoherently or have absolutely zero structure to their paragraphs. Thoughts would spill everywhere and grammar was absolutely atrocious. People need to understand as well that wordiness ≠ good. It’s actually better for things to be concise unless it’s meant to be descriptive.
Yes, welcome to my world -- aka. 'this is the reason teacher smokes and drinks when she gets off work' (well, the smoking part; I don't really drink). Yes, I realize it is the education system that has done this: they've done it to students, to parents, to society, and they've done it to me, and I've been a part of it...fml.
I'm working on that with my jr. high level kid at the moment -- content? very good, even some advanced critical thinking skills are there. Ability to coherently paragraph and syntax? Not so much.
Same goes for math: she gets more advanced geometry and some basic physics theories and formulas (she understand how to do them, why we do them, and where she can get the information to do them)...but she's getting caught up by not being as solid with basic freaking math skills. I've had her start helping her autistic sister with math and grammar, because the autistic sister, whom the school basically has considered incapable of advanced learning, has had those basic skills drilled into her, so she's better than her older, normal sister at them. Hey, whatever works is my game.
Oml editing people’s papers in school was the most disappointing thing. Writing ended up being like my ace subject in college whether it was persuasive or technical, though I never had to take super advanced writing beyond some specialized writing courses for accounting. People would write incoherently or have absolutely zero structure to their paragraphs. Thoughts would spill everywhere and grammar was absolutely atrocious. People need to understand as well that wordiness ≠ good. It’s actually better for things to be concise unless it’s meant to be descriptive.
Yes, welcome to my world -- aka. 'this is the reason teacher smokes and drinks when she gets off work' (well, the smoking part; I don't really drink). Yes, I realize it is the education system that has done this: they've done it to students, to parents, to society, and they've done it to me, and I've been a part of it...fml.
I'm working on that with my jr. high level kid at the moment -- content? very good, even some advanced critical thinking skills are there. Ability to coherently paragraph and syntax? Not so much. Same goes for math: she gets more advanced geometry and some basic physics theories and formulas (she understand how to do them, why we do them, and where she can get the information to do them)...but she's getting caught up by not being as solid with basic freaking math skills. I've had her start helping her autistic sister with math and grammar, because the autistic sister, whom the school basically has considered incapable of advanced learning, has had those basic skills drilled into her, so she's better than her older, normal sister at them. Hey, whatever works is my game.
Brevity and clarity.