You are in charge of Hogwarts

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 56624

--- melclaros <melclaros at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Well, keep in mind that the students are 11 when they started, so 
>> they've already learned basics of penmanship and grammar.  Extensive 
>> reading and writing will grant these skills without necessarily them 
>> being formally taught, which is I believe how it is at Hogwarts 
>> currently.  I learned far more valuable writing skills by DOING it than

>> being taught it. 
> 
> No, I think this about right. Can't get enough writing skills.

It would certainly be NICE, but you have to remember that there are a LOT
of things these students should be learning and only so many hours in the
day. *g*  Rather than sacrifice Transfiguration for Writing, teach them
Transfiguration in a class and teach them writing skills in the million
essays they have to write.  Once you've been taught the basic skills, you
learn by *writing*.  Presumably the professors would continue to mark off
for things like poor grammar or sentence structure along with stating the
Kappa is more common to Japan than Mongolia. ;)
 

Andrea

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