Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

by John Warner and John Warner

Book Overview

There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong.

Warner blames this on decades of educational reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421427109
• ISBN13: 9781421427102
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.1"