Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entering students learn grammar, punctuation and organization. At the University of Houston, 60% of the freshmen fail the first three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they have no idea what a paragraph is; they are unable to string details together in a logical sequence. They're just sort of vapid...
...YEARS AGO in an essay called "On Genocide," Jean-Paul Sartre condemned the United States government for its seemingly unlimited commitment to the total destruction of the Vietnamese people. Hidden away in that essay was a single paragraph dealing with the hypothesis: What if the war were to end? Sartre concluded that the U.S. would then pursue a more sophisticated form of genocide in which the Vietnamese people would be economically, politically and culturally suppressed. Such an argument is difficult to prove even now, in the so-called aftermath of the war. Yet more than one and a half years...
...second paragraph of the Guide's evaluation claims that the instructor in Phil 8 had planned for a small group of freshmen considering philosophy as a concentration and more than several philosophy concentrators thoroughly acquainted with the course material and method. That's just false, and it seems silly to impute intentions to others in such a context without querying them regarding those intentions. In fact, I expected no concentrators to take the course and I intended the course for students who had had no previous acquaintance with philosophy...
...away, and no bombardier will reduce them both to dust without ever seeing either. "In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died," Roth begins a long paragraph, one of the best in the translation...
...newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft a statement to accompany the release of the transcripts. He would take his chances with the result. Price moved into an unoccupied cabin and began drafting the President's explanation. St. Clair insisted on a paragraph making it clear that he had been unaware of this damaging evidence. With the statement still unfinished, the aides returned to the capital...