11-5 classwork

Arne Duncan is the CEO of Chicago public schools. Writing would be important for him because he probably has to write a lot of formal emails and letters. He probably also has to give speeches. If he did not have good grammar or did not know how to write well, his emails, letters, and speeches would not sound educated at all.

David Coleman is the ninth president of the College Board. He designs the SAT which has a lot to do with writing. The questions on the SAT have to sound educated. He designs the tests to decide which college students will get into. David has to know how to write because I'm sure he gives a lot of speeches and writes a lot of things for being president of College Board. The SAT is probably one of the biggest tests in the United States and if the president of the company who made the test did not know how to write, who knows what would happen.

Les Perelman was a writing professor at MIT, which mean he was probably an extremely good writer. Perelman was had a lot to do with why college board took the essay off the SAT. I'm pretty sure whenever I took the SAT, the essay part was optional. He serves on the board at MIT now with their writing department so I would say he is a pretty good writer.

Kathleen Blake Yancey works at the Florida State University with their writing department. She studies students writing. I would say she has to be a good writer to study other students writing or she would not have the job she has