Word: paragraphing
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...editors to make their magazine a challenging forum for student opinion. An issue devoted to a more specific problem within the area of African affairs would have, I think, been more effective. And most of the writing could have been better edited with an eye to paragraph structure and syntax. But the Dunster Political Review remains an interesting and informative magazine...
...really undesrstand until you see forty-five of the brightest Negro students in Charleston below grade level according to national standards in reading and mathematics and unable to write a coherent paragraph. (Most had never written an essay in English, which in Charleston consists of twelve years of grammar...
Their final achievement record was dramatic. According to standardized tests, the average student gained two years in reading comprehension during those six weeks. After a regimen of a composition a day most could write a decently organized four-paragraph essay. Most had a firm grasp of the basic principles of their next math course presented in the context of the new math. This preview of work to come was especially crucial for several who would be adjusting to previously all-white schools in the fall. The rapidity of this academic development-almost like time-lapse photography in students with...
...comment on "culture shock" distorts--deliberately, I suspect--what I wrote. His second paragraph of critisms is contradicted by Mr. Bass's letter. His third supports my argument, applauding the shapelessness of the Nieman program, but fails to deal with my complaint that the Nieman office could do much more to open Harvard's door...
...Your Essay did a thorough job of covering a touchy subject which most people would rather not even think about, let alone discuss. But more important, you did not stop at a mere examination of the topic. What impressed me was your smashingly direct last paragraph. It seems to me that the word compassion is often misunderstood when used in connection with such problems as the subject of your Essay, or the criminal, or the rebellious teenager. You have cleaned the air with words...