Students are explicitly taught how to turn ideas into simple sentences, and how to construct complex sentences from simple ones by supplying the answer to three prompts—but, because, and so. They are instructed on how to use appositive clauses to vary the way their sentences begin. Later on, they are taught how to recognize sentence fragments, how to pull the main idea from a paragraph, and how to form a main idea on their own. It is, at least initially, a rigid, unswerving formula. “I prefer recipe,” Hochman says, “but formula? Yes! Okay!” American SchoolsOctober 2012 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE The Writing Revolution |
 |
||||||||||||||
 
CategoriesACTAthletes Best Business Practices College Acceptance College Scholarships Dual Credit Essays Fund Raiser Graduation Requirements Learning Disability NEW SAT TEST Format PSAT Reading SAT Scholarships Services STAAR STAAR Writing Study Skills Success Stories Superscore Top Colleges University of Oklahoma |
|
 |
||||||||||||
    |
||||||||||||||
