Transcript of Screencast Showing Me Typing Up My First Draft

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Okay, umm...of course I don't have the book that I use...that I get the Harvard example from. It's basically talking about how umm..At Harvard was basically the first school where they did a placement essay, and they were horrified that half of their students didn't have perfect grammar, so they instituted a freshman writing course. Umm...and basically it was the first literacy crisis, um...or at least, you know, modern times.

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Now one thing that's...[groaning] It just...it irks me when I do stuff like that.

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All right...okay, so I've got a quote in here, this is from a textbook I use in a graduate course, and they talk about...it's quoting an older article that talks about how horrible it was to teach composition in the nineteenth century when it was all drill and kill, so I'll add it in here when I have more time to look at it.

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