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> This explains the fallacy of writing skills tests:
> You are testing for implementation skill - a much
> lesser skill - not for analysis skill. The real test
> is to ask the person being tested to create what
> he/she would use as input to text creation - not to
> create text.
How does that differ from judging a ballerina by her ability to draw
diagrams of her movements?
In fact, a writer's "product" is the writing. Analysis is surely a component
of it, but both skills need to be evaluated in the final product, and I
would suggest that the skill of writing must be as highly developed as that
of analysis and is certainly not "a much lesser skill" than analysis.
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