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Originally Posted by guthmund
My senior English teacher in high school made us type up all of our papers on a pair of typewriters he kept stashed in the corner. You were careful, you were exacting and every sentence that was written on the final paper came from you. Now, while I'm certainly in no position to criticize anyone's writing, I do believe I've a fairly firm handle on how to use the English language properly and I believe that it's because of my senior English teacher and those damn typewriters.
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We had to handwrite ours. They had to be immaculate or else he wouldn't accept them. He also made us write timed essays in class; it was good practice for writing in blue books once I got to college and sat essay exams. Another teacher, who I will never forget, gave us practice worksheets from the Miller Analogies Test. Thanks to him, I got a perfect score on the analogy portion of the SAT. The analogies were part of a larger grammar lesson, one I'm glad I received.