This is why you shouldn't depend on consultants to teach writing classes. No, not because they're teaching students about Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar - after all, if Bob Dylan can win a Nobel Prize, popular culture can be literature. No, it's this: "I teach writing to high schoolers through my college consulting firm," writes Liza Libes. "When preparing students to write their college essays, I always lead with literature — Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Fitzgerald, for instance — for I believe that developing strong communication skills lies in understanding the writing styles and messages of these great thinkers and writers." How useless would this be?
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