Monday, 14 June 2010

Essay writing

"Composition is the first lesson for Chinese to learn about telling lies," Han Han, a renowned writer and blogger, was quoted by Global Times.
Chinese students, as many in India, must write compositions exactly as per format in order to get good marks. Well, we all have heard this by now. But the reason is what surprises me. [ To stop them from making up stories, they should be encouraged to think more and experience more," she said.]
You experience more if you follow the straight and narrow path of essay writing-as-per-format???
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1 comment:

bythewindowsill said...

my attempt at translating one of the many tamil poem celebrating that moment of duryodhan, you may like it:

http://bythewindowsill.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-defence-of-duryodhana.html

19 June 2010 at 16:34

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