Yeah, I'm in a similar boat, with needing to push the kid to focus on the actual writing part of his assignments. It doesn't help, of course, that his last history assignment was a group project where the end product was a powerpoint, rather than a paper. (9th grade, public school if it matters). Not a lot of opportunities to hone the cr…
Yeah, I'm in a similar boat, with needing to push the kid to focus on the actual writing part of his assignments. It doesn't help, of course, that his last history assignment was a group project where the end product was a powerpoint, rather than a paper. (9th grade, public school if it matters). Not a lot of opportunities to hone the craft when you are responsible for a dozen or so bullet points across a bunch of slides.
Yeah, I'm in a similar boat, with needing to push the kid to focus on the actual writing part of his assignments. It doesn't help, of course, that his last history assignment was a group project where the end product was a powerpoint, rather than a paper. (9th grade, public school if it matters). Not a lot of opportunities to hone the craft when you are responsible for a dozen or so bullet points across a bunch of slides.