Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1984
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy, published by The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 3, 1984.
Abstract
For over a decade now, we have been bombarded with public reports about the wretched state of high school and college students' writing skills. In response to such publicity, the general public has called for a "return to the basics" in writing instruction, by which most people seem to mean return to an emphasis on grammar, usage, and spelling. In response to such pressures, the competency-testing movement appears to be focusing upon sentence-level "correctness" as the criterion of competency in writing.
Stages 1-6
Notes
Appendix
Topic B
Writing About Tougher Drunk Driving Laws for a Hostile Audience
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Essay Assignment
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