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Create A New Town And A New You To Improve Writing Skills, Barbara Broadfoot
Create A New Town And A New You To Improve Writing Skills, Barbara Broadfoot
Theses
Writing has always been one of the corners tones of American education . Schools are concerned with the development of students, and writing contributes to the development of the whole person. The public is alarmed because many students graduate from high school without being able to write well enough to function in today's complicated society.
There a re many reasons why schools fail to do a good job in the teaching of writing. One of the main reasons is the schools' over-emphasis on the teaching of grammar. Many teachers are not trained as teachers of writing and rely on the …