Warning: my diatribe below consists of mostly rant, with excerpts of real-world writing samples from previous students. I will also indict most of Kindergarten through High School Education. I say most as the factors with the least blame, in my opinion, are the teachers themselves. However, my attitude towards K-12 teachers is changing, too. I…
I write because I think. My thoughts need a form. I give them a form through the laborious machinations of word selection, ordering, and penning them on some hard- or soft copy media, following generations old rules. My favorite author of all-time is Ray Bradbury. His prose is poetry. The meter, tone, tenor and lyrical…
Writing is not simply a high school exercise designed by sadistic adults to torture teenage brain cells. The pain felt while writing, if not teenage angst, is the result of torpid brain cells firing into action. Writing is communication. Communication is imperative to all human interaction. Writing helps one organize thoughts, from linear progression in…
Constant Geography 