The reason writing is so hard in school is that kids are being made to write when they have nothing to say. They're writing about things they don't care about. [...] They're writing to an "audience" who isn't voluntarily reading.https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1241159602562936832 …
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the ratio of essays i had to write in school to the number of decent essays i was exposed to in school was rather high i didnt actually see any really good essays until i read the lw sequences no wonder i didnt know how to write them, i didnt know what i was supposed to write
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"ask a question, then record the process of trying to answer it" will almost always make a much interesting and more convincing essay than anything ever written for an english teacher
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