onlineteacher

Dear Kate,

Great attempt at a complete sentence there! It seems like you have an important idea that you really want to express! Try reading your sentence out loud and see how it sounds. If it's a bit weird, maybe you can reword it in a more natural manner? Keep up the good work!

That is the type of comment I'm required to leave on sentences like that.

There have been times when I really wished this was possible. The amount of caps-locked "WHY U MARK MY PAPER DOWN IT WAS PERFECT MY HUSBAND DID PROOFREAD IT NOTHING IS RIGHT ON UR EYES!" emails I get a week is astonishing.

Though I'm not a psychologist, I do feel that quite a lot of my students suffer from some form of mental retardation. It could be just plain ol' illiteracy, though.

I would say about half read the instructions and half don't. Of the half that do read the instructions, only about 20% comprehend them.

Here are some writing samples from students:

‎"I am going to research childhood fatness reason,working at the school broad children mention why being obesity affection there life emotion and physical."

‎"The solitary cause for the success of America becoming the universal nation is the outstanding and unparalleled capability for incorporation of migrants, which has been a routine element of absorption of culture, is acquirement of English."

""I enjoy wrighting papers. Thats one of the things that i have going for me is the fact that i enjoy wrighting and poetry. When you wright it makes you think and you have to be creative to pull the reader in. I think now knowing that there is alot of resources out there that can help you makes me a little more at ease. I am always worried about what i wright about because some of the things that excite me, alot of people will not like. And as much as i dont like the negative comments that i get back i no that i have to take it all in to become a better wrighter."

One. In my entire time there, there was one exceptional paper written by a student aspiring to be a historian. I desperately wanted to tell him he was in the wrong place.

Wow. Can I steal that line? Next time I'm chatting up a girl, I want to throw in, "Yeah, I help rehabilitate stroke victims" for some extra chivalry points.