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Theres no getting around it it takes work to teach students how to write. And it takes work for them to do it. It involves knowing which ideas to reject and which to expand upon. It requires summoning a purpose, choosing words that capture the proper tone and reading them out loud. It is making the cake not from the box, but from scratch. When we ask students to write take-home essays about Hamlet, they dont write the best treatises ever conceived on the subject.
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