Today’s average student is often proficient at imitations of writing that pass muster for school, but they struggle mightily with writing tasks that ask them to synthesize and create knowledge. Part of this is because synthesizing and creating knowledge is hard, one of those skills that takes a lot of practice. But the bigger problem is that they aren’t practicing those skills in school. We have students who are highly literate in many ways, but we do not allow them to translate that literacy into the kind of writing that reflects the underlying values of humanistic study.
CCP in a nutshell!
