Fish Out of Water:What Kind of Skills Should a Writer Have?



how to make high school
students write better.

I agree with Dr Fish's article Colleges Teach, Part 3, because middle school and high school should have writing skills, because it will get the kids ready for college and  it will help kids improving writing. I think that any kind of studnet should have to learn writing skills because it makes them smarter and it will get them writing papers.

I think that school from first through senior year should have some kind of writing skills and sentences figured out because you want to know what you are in doing college and know how to write a sentence and make it sound good, You want to make sure you are doing the right thing and you want to look up things.

Because Dr. Fish, is saying that some of the schools are shut down because srome of the teachers don’t want to teach the kids how to write or have them learn anything about writing that way you want to talk to the teachers and see why they aren’t teaching you guys any writing.

He want to make sure that teachers are using sentences and making them sound good because you have to have sentences and make them in your own words because you don’t want to use anyone else’s word and say that you are done with your paper because you took someone else words right of their mouth.


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You can use thesis statements too and you can use any other words in your paper, you just need to look over what Dr. Fish said in his paper. Just t like using sentence, because you don’t want to mess up on things and you want to see what else he is talking about. You have to keep a good eye out because you don’t know if he put anything else on his blog. That would be mean if he did because you wouldn’t know what he was talking about and it wouldn’t make sense because he added more words to his paper.

But I do agree with some of his stuff because he wants the college kids to learn how use sentence and how to use them right. you don’t want to mess up sentences so that why you look over them. You want to make sure that you are looking over your paper and make sure you did everything right because you are supposed to look over what Dr. Fish said. You want agree with him sometimes and other times you just want to think why he is saying this because he want to have kids to be smart.

His name is Dr. Stanley Fish, he went to college under the age of 25 but didn’t finish. He dropped out of school and then went back a year later and he didn’t know what his major was so he just stayed in college and just kept up with it. He didn’t want to drop out again so he became a teacher of college students and taught them how to make sentences and how to put a topic into the sentence. You have to have a good one because you can’t have a sentence without a topic so they just made one.

How are you going to start a paper if you don’t have a topic and how are you going to make it sound good? But when I worked with Jonathan and Josh at the Writer's Studio at OSU Newark they just talked about thesis statement and how to put it into a paragraph.