This article URL was posted to another list I'm on where people are also
discussing the Indiana decision to score essays with computers. My
favorite part of this piece is:
"I am not particularly concerned about the youth of today, and if the world
goes to hell I don''t really care. But I do care about coming to the middle
of a semester and reading 35 5-page papers that seem to have been written
by boulders."
Marcy
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Date: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:54 PM -0600
From: Nick Carbone <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: [techrhet] FW: lobotomized school of writing
Christopher Sartwell wrote a piece in the LA Times Op. Ed. pages that slams
computerized grading and 5 para theme.
[snip]
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-sartwell20may20,1,153
7602.story
Here's the version from Sartwell's own WWW site:
http://www.crispinsartwell.com/mechwrite.htm
You'll note the Times made some family newspaper edits to Sartwell's
original.
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