Bam - these student essays are killing me.
After taking a page or so to get to her point - that she used to believe that the ability to communicate effectively was more important than effectively communicating - she continues with the experience that led her to the revelation that the transition from high school to college consists of a student's willingness to learn, understand and modify the rules of grammar in order to communicate ideas. the odd thing is that the mistakes she recounts making as an inept writing student are the very same here - she never quiet gets to the point of defining what college level writing is, prose is long and complex without reason (i.e. sentences could be more efficient), etc. \
It could be that she is trying to model what bad college writing typically is...but why make me suffer through it?
You have an interseting point, Daniel, and i would have to say that I agree. Many of the student essays are not as helpful as they could be.
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