{"id":35854,"date":"2018-06-26T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:11:57","slug":"qotd-writing-essays-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/qotd-writing-essays-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Writing essays in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To find their way in American life, high-\u00adschoolers need to be able to speak English, to read, to listen to and respect other people\u2019s opinions, to have a command of the basic elements of courtesy and, to a lesser extent, to write. (They do not need to know how to write a thesis sentence. More injury is done to high-school essays by the imposition of the thesis-\u00adsentence requirement than by any other means. The trick, kids are sometimes told, is to begin with a word like \u201calthough.\u201d No.)<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson Baker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/11\/magazine\/fortress-of-tedium-what-i-learned-as-a-substitute-teacher.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher&#8221;, <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2016-09-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find their way in American life, high-\u00adschoolers need to be able to speak English, to read, to listen to and respect other people\u2019s opinions, to have a command of the basic elements of courtesy and, to a lesser extent, to write. (They do not need to know how to write a thesis sentence. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,41,13],"tags":[504,134],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-teenagers","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35855,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions\/35855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}