PART TWO: LEVELS OF RESOLUTION

Words, sentences & paragraphs An essay or answer, like any piece of writing, exists at multiple levels of resolution, simultaneously. First is the selection of the word Second is the crafting of the sentence. Each word should be precisely the right word, in the right location in each sentence. The sentence itself should present a […]

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CCS WRITING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: Why do we write

[Part One]: Why do we write?

1. #Why? Most of the time, students write essays only because they are required to do so in an exam setting. Thus, students come to believe that essays are important primarily to demonstrate their knowledge to an examiner. This is simply, and dangerously, wrong (even though such writing for demonstration may be practically necessary). The

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