Rationally Speaking #36 - Why Should We Care About Teaching the Humanities?
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The Importance of Clear and Forceful Writing
The author says students should learn how to write clearly and forcefully in science classes. He argues that writing about fiction is actually more fun, therefore it's easier to get the students to do it than writing about dry matters. A longitudinal study followed a court of several thousand undergraduate students from the first year in college to the last year of college. Something like 30 to 35% of the students learned statistically, matterably nothing in four years.
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