Having students practice writing skills by writing in a personal journal each day helps to improve writing skills, vocabulary, and organizing thoughts
into coherent paragraphs.
Trewhella noted, «I've come across postdocs who can barely put together
a coherent paragraph.»
Not the joy - killing machines ruining childhood, as so many critics have portrayed standardized tests, but true measures of whether children were learning the key skills they would need as grown - ups: how to think critically, solve problems, make a convincing argument, and write
a coherent paragraph.