Education

errors are" is only the beginning of writing instruction, but some people think just run it through a spell check and a grammar check, so they think technology can do it. Wrong.

The important stuff about writing instruction happens on a one to one level, beyond grammar & spelling & punctuation, in more evocative modes that have a lot to do with asking a writer a not only a good question but the question(s) that is right for that writer and also making suggestions for related sources (some of which would be more or less obvious from being directly related, but others of which are less obvious from being less directly related to whatever a specific point is, but still well enough related over-all so as to suggest additional development to a writer) and, then, there is also of course the way that flesh and blood teachers can put writers together in complementary ways and facilitate their interaction. All of which is the result of the types of contact that allow more or less unique personal perceptions to develop. Machines cannot replicate these things and they are essential to the development of good writers and good humans.