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Earachnophonia? ... ill get me coat
Posts by Chris Fellows
2 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2007
Oregon boy in double spider ear blockage horror
Irish kids' literacy hit by txts
Wednesday 25th April 2007 17:02 GMT
less is more?
Bad grammar is one thing but to suggest that students should be taught to "explore the territory they had studied and to express the breadth and depth of their learning and understanding" is really asking for trouble. Awarding marks to schoolchildren based on volume of text inevitably leads to university students who write too much and then to researchers who write waaaaaaaay too much. I've found that the habit of padding simple ideas with meaningless explanations simply forces the reader to skim over entire documents just to find the few sentences that could have communicated the idea in it's entirety. Getting students to present the necessary details clearly and logically should (IMHO) take priority over getting them to write down every little insignificant detail. *shrug*
Biting the hand that feeds IT
