Write It Right

When I read this blog entry at Inside Higher Ed, in which professor John Warner describes the hoops he has to jump through to get his college students to forget what they learned about "essays" in high school, I have only one thought:

Thanks, Mr. Love, for assigning those two research papers junior year in American History. I'm pretty sure the only thing that helped me lift my undergraduate GPA from dismal to mediocre was the fact that I knew how to write a real essay with an argument, supporting evidence and a point.