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Originally Posted by KarenH
Here's how to tighten the academic thumbscrews: My son's current English teacher has forbidden students to use first person, second person, or contractions in their essays for the rest of the school year. I think that's a much stricter standard than is actually being followed in most professional writing these days.
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That's how it has been for me since 8th grade. We could not use pronouns, contractions, and were discouraged from writing dialogue until we were properly taught how to use it.
We've been taught the "five paragraph" essay for a long time, probably since about 6th or 7th grade. Now that we're in high school, we do about one or two Writing On Demands. Our English tests usually include a writing portion at the end where we have to write a 5 paragraph essay on the book we just read.