I am helping a good friend with her homeschooling efforts -- particularly with teaching writing. Since you all seem to have such good essay writing tips, I was wondering if any of you know of any websites where I could find examples of poorly written essays? One of the things that we are trying is taking poorly written reports and essays and editing them to make them better. Thus far, we've simply worked together with her dc on editing her own writing. I thought that it might be good to take a look at something she hadn't written herself and see if she can spot the mistakes and areas where it could be improved, though.
She's a late elementary-early middle school aged child, so not as old as the op's child, though.
OP, incidentally what leads you to believe that your ds has a significant deficiency in writing? Did he already take the SAT and have a much lower score on the written part?
