2008年3月3日 星期一

Students' problems in writing

Today the students got their compositions back. I quickly went over some before I handed them back. The most common problems the students had in the writing part on this mock exam are as follows.


1. Some didn't even read the Chinese instructions carefully. So they didn't write what they are required to.

2. Some sentences in the compositions were not logically connected. In fact, logic is very important in writing and using right transitional words helps the reader follow the logic.

3. Some conclusions were irrelevant to the main idea. You'll think the writer wrote on something else.

4. Some sounded didactic. This may be because students in Taiwan are always told to do thus-and-thus.

5. Many misspelled words or used the wrong word.

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