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Bob's Your Uncle: How the English Do Writing

Apr 20, 2023

As we know from an earlier episode with Amy Jo Swing, this English language comes from...England. OK. Pretty obvious, but in this episode, British expatriate Nicola Scott from LSC’s Tutoring and Learning Center unpacks for us what she learned about writing back in her school days. It’s kind of surprising: 

  1. That what we would call high school (secondary school) ends much younger there. 

  1. That after secondary school, there is literally no parallel thing to our College Composition.  

  1. That Nicola really thinks College Composition courses are a great opportunity that develop even more than writing skills. 

Pay attention, because once you hear Nicola speak, Bob’s your uncle this episode will be over. We’ll unpack that weirdness near the end. Listen in.