I thought I’d share something the professor I’m teaching for shared with the class. His basic comment was that the writing of the class was full of flowery prose, but very few substantive statements; something I’d noticed all semester in their lab reports. To illustrate his point, he linked them to a George Orwell essay and I thought it would be worth sharing with others. It goes along with my wish that I could demand that all of my students read Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style before writing their lab reports, but unfortunately I couldn’t.

Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Writing.
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