In Stanley Fischer's blog "What Should College Teach?"(part 3), he discusses schools not utilizing successful strategies for teaching writing. It puts a weight on school educators to compensate for those missed aptitudes. He ponders what ways instructors can enhance an understudy composing. As per Fish, he trusts the most essential aptitude an understudy has to know is sentence structure. I concur with him, yet we have to concentrate on the most critical sentence in a paper, a thesis statement.
I read most of the comments that you all posted about how Fish should “just stick to teaching” and questioning if he has even taught a s ingle class himself. All of that may be true but regardless of whether any of you sees it or not or remarks on it or not, the instructing of writing in colleges is a calamity. There is the conviction with respect to numerous composition educators that what they are truly instructing is some type of social equity, and that the educating of composing ... takes a…show more content… since grade one and without getting at least a B, you won’t graduate from one grade to another. I came across an article that explained a bit more what I’m trying to explain here. The article is written by John Maguire, former writer for Miami News. In the article he states that, “High school graduates arrive incompetent to write, benefit little from their pitifully weak freshman instruction, and cannot improve their copy afterwards, because colleges impose no writing standards after the freshman year… depending on the college, up to half the students in Writing I classrooms are baffled because they never learned sentence construction in grade school or high school. They aren’t just defective in their knowledge of grammar—they know nothing about grammar.” So maybe we should start focusing on our students’ grammar and sentence structure when they are still in grade school, don’t you all
