Just interested in where you get your facts. In my area we all teach the  MLA 
style and many of us writers.
 
 

Alison:  I think your experience is the rule rather than the exception. The 
people  I have taught with in public schools appear never to have heard of 
MLA  style, so, of course, they do not teach it. They have these formalaic  
rules, such as how many sentences go in a paragraph, how many paragraphs  
make an essay, where the thesis statement goes (like you indicated), etc.  I 
find it all tedious and counterproductive...writing should be fun,  creative, 
ongoing, and across the curriculum. Unfortunately, most public  school 
teachers write very little; and when they do, it is stylized and  
uninteresting if not downright poorly executed.  Helene



 
Bev  Sims
9th Pre-AP 
Bremerton, WA 

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