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My sixth grade teacher called comic books mush books, because they
turned our brains into mush. Well, according to RH's post they're not a
challenge or dumbed down.
bc
Brian Whatcott wrote:
At 10:50 PM 11/2/2005, John Clement, you wrote:somewhat
But James Joyce had an even higher index. The suggested changes do
Atconvey the ideas, but completely omit the evidence. Essentially the
suggested changes turn something with persuasive evidence into a simple
summary statement. The last one implies a comparison, but with what?
Noleast the previous reworking actually compares two results, but only
qualitatively.
In other words improving the fog index turns exact language into mush.
wonder student reading ability is going down. We are feeding them mush
instead of precise language.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
I don't consider John's note above to be mush,
even though it's fog index is < 8
Do you?
Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!