[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

[Jay Litwyn]

I had a hard time learning to eliminate warnings from Grammatik. RTFM. I 
ignored the rule on sentence length like I ignore the rule on sentence 
fragments, today.
The hardest rule is activation, where you might need to insert pronouns 
like:
The donkey was kicked.
Someone kicked the donkey.

Wikis might be a nice trick for a teacher. She could mark grammar and 
spelling by correcting it. The student would see a diff. OR, she could get 
peers from the next grade or two to do that. Just call a geek to install a 
server. Then there is still penmanship, Matters of Content, and Matters of 
Organization (and probably matters of style) for the accepted and understood 
revisions. Three fifths of the mark on an essay are not mechanical.

"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fbad4e140903251426vcd5a376ld460df78b57cb6e5 at mail.gmail.com...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm
>
> " Primary school pupils should learn how to blog and use internet
> sites like Twitter and Wikipedia and spend less time studying history,
> it is claimed. A review of the primary school curriculum in England
> will be published in a final report next month. "
>
> (from WMUK list via Thomas Dalton)
>
>
> - d.
>
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