How Writing a Sonnet Helps Students Learn English

George Leef


In today's Pope Center piece, Troy Camplin explains the benefits of giving students a seemingly outmoded and irrelevant writing assignment -- composing a sonnet. It makes students who are not used to thinking carefully about the use of words do so.

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