I teach in the English department at a college in upstate New York, which every now and then means teaching freshman comp, a kind of crash course on writing coherent papers.

我在纽约州北部一所大学的英语系教书，就是说时不时会上大一的作文课，那种论文写作速成班。

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For many students, the mandatory, oft-lamented freshman writing class is their first exposure to those elements of personal growth that are central to leadership.

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But much more importantly, in the American college system, the freshman and junior years are really there only to improve skills like critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing.

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