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Bill's Broadsides
POSTED:Tue, September 8, 2009 @ 2:47PM
Back to schoolStanley Fish had a short, sweet essay published in the New York Times' op-ed section on Sunday, just in time for the start of school. It caught my attention in part because I have used another of Fish's essays in my writing courses at FMCC, and his topic in this new piece is ... writing courses.Here's an excerpt: I would advise students to take a composition course even if they have tested out of it. I have taught many students whose SAT scores exempted them from the writing requirement, but a disheartening number of them couldn’t write and an equal number had never been asked to. They managed to get through high school without learning how to write a clean English sentence, and if you can’t do that you can’t do anything.You can read the whole essay here: The Hunt for a Good Teacher PREVIOUS POST: Mayoral Candidates Debate on YouTube
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Bill Ackerbauer Assistant City Editor Johnstown native Bill Ackerbauer began his journalism career in 1996 as a reporter with The Leader-Herald. He has been an editor and writer for newspapers in Schenectady, Saratoga Springs and Dover, N.H., and returned to the Leader in 2007. 'Bill's Broadsides' has twice won first-place awards (2007-08 and 2008-09) in the New York State Associated Press writing contest for newspapers in the Leader-Herald's circulation category. Bill teaches English as an adjunct instructor at Fulton-Montgomery Community College, and he has taught journalism courses at the University at Albany. In his spare time, Bill plays folk music on guitar, banjo, fiddle and other traditional instruments. He lives in Johnstown with his wife, Jen, and their two sons, Liam and Carter.
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