The new SAT, which will be given for the first time in the Spring, includes a Writing component to test student's skills. Colleges were finding that kids with outstanding essays were lacking in writing skills once they arrived on campus. They suspected these students had had someone else write their application essays, so now they'll be able to compare the writing sample from the SAT to the essay submitted by the student.
Our daughter is homeschooled (Jr. year), but that's one subject I've never been able to teach her well, though I finally found a curriculum that she likes and is using. We just registered her for an English Composition class at a local Community college, and she's looking forward to that.
Yes, but who will grade the papers? Today, college English professors do not seem to be able to grasp simple grammar. I saw "mediums" the other day in a letter to the editor from a supposed english professor. This one always gets me. Now that they finally realize "media" is plural for "medium" they then go back to the singular, then pluralize incorrectly.
Idiots (Idia?)