How To Write A College/University Essay
Originally published on December 9th, 2009, this article is directed to college and university students about how to write an essay. It is based on Chapter six of a book I wrote (see my About header page), but also includes up-to-date technical resources for keeping track of references and/or inserting them directly into their text. See, for [...]
University students & the problem of writing essays
How to write an essay! It is obvious, given the complaints in this column that university professors are having to teach or re-teach their students how to write. What that seems to suggest is that our secondary schools are not preparing students for the expectations of university rigor.
Ontario high schools SHOULD be teaching grammar
I received an e-mail from a regular reader yesterday who explained that her daughter had just graduated from high school and was about to start university in September – without the English grammar and spelling abilities one might expect — and wondered how she would survive university without those skills. It was also explained to me that she, the mother, had asked [...]
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