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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:14:00 CDT
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- From: Mary OSullivan <MFOSULLI@MACC.WISC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: High school/college comp courses
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- >Rhoda, you have touched on a topic in which we all should be very interested
- >in that more and more students are getting first year composition credit for
- >courses taken in high school (see paried articles by Michael Vivion and me in
- >a recent issue of the WPA journal). The notion that a college writing course
- >can offer something that a high school writing course cannot offer is critical
- >to my objection to giving college credit for high school courses. My main
- >argument is from context. I would like to hear what others have to say.
- >
- >-- David E. Schwalm, Assoc. Provost for Academic Programs
- >___Arizona State University West
- >___4701 West Thunderbird Rd.
- >___Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100___(602) 543-4500
-
- Yes! Resist! Those of us in the Wisconsin Technical College system (WI's
- community college system) are in the middle of being pressured by the Department
- of Public Instruction (K-12's state organization) to accept high school
- classes for credit. Administrators at the high school level seem to think
- it is a good idea too--but not the teachers. At my school, we forestalled
- a local high school's attempt to put an agreement in place that would have
- allowed students to get college credit for high school classes, simply by
- talking with the high school teachers who ended up agreeing with us instead
- of their administrators. Writing is not a discrete skill that once learned
- needs no refining. Maturity has a terrific impact on what writing concepts
- a person can understand and apply. Students need all the writing instruction
- they can; we do them a disservice by by offering them less.
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- Mary O'Sullivan
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