I write, teach writing, teach how to write, and am a writer.
August 7th, 2007
 Tutoring is slow over the summer, but I do have a couple of students I’m working with. One of them is a teen doing something of a writing intensive. To reinforce varying sentence structure, over the weekend I had him write 20 sentences of several different types. One of the resulting efforts was this sentence:
Clearly, my work is not yet done with this particular student. Still, even if his diction isn’t up to snuff, he has a future in philosophy. This was another of his sentences:
Amen, kid. |
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August 17th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
“To be a lawyer, you must go to a lawyer school, like my dad, who is a lawyer.”
heh. Sounds like a veritable comedic goldmine.
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