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Common Mistakes and Some Options for Parents
by Andrew Pudewa

We’ve all suffered it at one time or another: Frustration about writing assignments. Either on the receiving end, or perhaps nowon the giving end, there can be a few distinctly discouraging aspects to teaching and being taught writing. The tough questions include:

• What to correct and how to give a grade?
• How much help is too much?
• Isn’t the assignment clear enough?
• Why don’t students find their own errors?

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by John R. Erickson

I grew up in a little town in the northern Texas Panhandle. Nobody in Perryton had ever become a writer or, as far as I knew, had even thought much about it. 

I did very little writing until I went to college. At the University of Texas, I did well in courses that required essays, and I took some classes on writing. During my two years at Harvard Divinity School, I enrolled in a year-long class on fiction writing.

However, I have come to realize that the best instruction I received on writing did not occur in a college classroom or come from someone with a doctorate in English literature.

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