Writing with Logic, Deep Thinking, and "Flair"
Recently, my mother has been worrying that my brother's writing is not up to par with his classmates and the requirements for getting into elite colleges. Besides the fact that he is still only in 7th grade, a period of time that is really premature is judging the readiness for college-level writing, I suppose the fear is legitimate for a parent who does not know better. Chinese people can't stress enough about the importance of writing in American education system (primarily because Chinese people generally believe in technical stuff, such as engineering, medicine, and sciences, as the only legitimate education for preparation for good jobs...and because they generally suck at English writing) as Chinese kids, even those that have lived most of their lives in the US, tend to fall apart on the writing section of the SAT and in English classes both in high school and college. Having taught writing for so long to high school students in Korea, I have a general grasp of what are