KSOO-AM 1140 - Live, Local and Breaking News from Sioux Falls, South Dakota » Writing http://ksoo.com The Talk of Sioux Falls Fri, 24 May 2013 16:56:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Needed: Students' Writing Skills http://ksoo.com/needed-students-writing-skills/ http://ksoo.com/needed-students-writing-skills/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:51:18 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=14440 A story this week told of students needing better writing skills.

It makes sense, even without knowing what students' writing skills are like.

The ability to put a coherent sentence together seems to me to be one of those things that can only do good, much the same as the ability to read

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