It felt as if the poets had been chosen more for the problems they wrote about rather than how well they wrote.
With the holiday season upon us, let's take a look at some of the gift-giving services and how well they work, writes contributor Natasha Starkell.
This coming academic year, 40 to 50 colleges and universities will participate in a study to evaluate their liberal arts instruction, testing students over time to see how well they learn to write and think and analyze.
The new test puts New York among a handful of states, including Kentucky, Massachusetts and South Carolina, that have tried to rank students and schools by how well they meet a written standard of performance, rather than along a national curve that determines what is average, above and below average.
We're especially interested in how well candidates self-motivate, how well they communicate in writing (because most of us work remotely, we rely heavily on instant messaging), and how they deal with mistakes.
Right now, in STEM subjects, we assess someone's potential based on how well they can factor a polynomial or how many questions they get right on an S.A.T. math score or how well they can write an algorithm in a computer science class.
But deciding which books to publish is as much a decision about how well written they are as it is how many copies they will sell.
Journalists may have freaked out on Monday over desk monitors, but their bosses already have access to plenty of analytics data about how many stories they write, how well those stories perform, what sites the people reading their stories come from and even how long readers stay on the page.
No matter how well you write your script, they are sure to sound scripted -- and if you get off the script?
