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Feb. 27th, 2019 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evening_tsarFunny,
The Ontario English Curriculum provides a credit called "Business and Technological Communication", which doesn't seem to require any actual writing. The strand "Producing business and technological communication" requires students to identify purpose and audience, use text features, oral presentation techniques and audio-visual aides, as well as revising and editing work, but does not appear to demand any actual writing. "Put sentences together in a meaningful fashion" does not appear in the curricular expectations. Other courses at least require "sentence craft and fluency", but this one does not.
To be fair, I'm not sure what students are supposed to revise and edit if they're not to write anything - it seems rather implied, a sort of "goes without saying" requirement. But if I'm to twist my weary old brain into to implementing these requirements, and making everything I do relevant to them, if they're going to hold me to the letter of the law, then I'm damn well going to require it of them. If they want me to stick some kind of curricular code on every lesson plan, the least they could do is include a code for "Write the Fuckin' Thing".
(To be entirely fair, the EBT40 course offered by ilc.org is excellent, and I recommend everyone take it, not least those wind-bags in the Hallowed Halls of Academia. No one who freely uses run-on sentences has a right to lecture anyone on anything.)
The Ontario English Curriculum provides a credit called "Business and Technological Communication", which doesn't seem to require any actual writing. The strand "Producing business and technological communication" requires students to identify purpose and audience, use text features, oral presentation techniques and audio-visual aides, as well as revising and editing work, but does not appear to demand any actual writing. "Put sentences together in a meaningful fashion" does not appear in the curricular expectations. Other courses at least require "sentence craft and fluency", but this one does not.
To be fair, I'm not sure what students are supposed to revise and edit if they're not to write anything - it seems rather implied, a sort of "goes without saying" requirement. But if I'm to twist my weary old brain into to implementing these requirements, and making everything I do relevant to them, if they're going to hold me to the letter of the law, then I'm damn well going to require it of them. If they want me to stick some kind of curricular code on every lesson plan, the least they could do is include a code for "Write the Fuckin' Thing".
(To be entirely fair, the EBT40 course offered by ilc.org is excellent, and I recommend everyone take it, not least those wind-bags in the Hallowed Halls of Academia. No one who freely uses run-on sentences has a right to lecture anyone on anything.)
