"[Sherry] Swain agreed, saying the National Writing Project and others have worked to come up with an unbiased system for measuring the skill. Perfecting the teaching is another matter.
"If all you do is write every day, it'll feel good," said Swain. "But if you want them to write better, you need to show (students) different sentence styles, show them different types of writing, identify specific strategies." (from the NWP website)
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