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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:20:15 AST
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- From: Russ Hunt <HUNT@UNB.CA>
- Subject: Re: High school/college comp courses
- In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of TUE 29 DEC 1992 06:37:51 EST
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- Putting together Sharon's wonderful explanation of what's
- wrong with requiring freshman comp and Mary O'Sullivan's comment
- on giving college credit for high school courses leads to a
- troubling reflection. Having a defense plant in your town
- facilitates rationalization wonderfully. When we argue that
- students shouldn't "get credit" for writing courses taken in high
- school, what's really at stake? Is it the students, or is it the
- protection of the college comp infrastructure? It won't do, I
- think, for us to say that "Students need all the writing
- instruction they can get" and that "we do them a disservice by by
- offering them less." The way writing instruction is actually
- offered, in practice (as Sharon makes clear) renders this a
- pretty empty generalization. I think students need something
- different in the way of situations in which writing can be
- learned, and I'm unconvinced that required courses -- in high
- school or anywhere else -- is the way to do it. Even if it's all
- we can do.
- -- Russ
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