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amcknight comments on Scientifically optimizing education: Hard problem, or solved problem? Introducing the Theory of Direct Instruction - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Owen_Richardson 31 August 2011 05:28AM

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Comment author: amcknight 31 August 2011 09:14:50PM 3 points [-]

I think this is a good subject to write about and that you can work this into a nice article if you continue to boil it down. Others have given some good (and maybe a bit harsh?) feedback. All I want to add is that for a post this long, it would be much more useful to have reference numbers (or better yet, links) within your article. I found myself initially having questions and wanting to look at references and then lost that motivation once I finally got to them. Also, I think your conclusion has too much new content.

Comment author: Owen_Richardson 01 September 2011 05:10:16AM 1 point [-]

There are plenty of very valid criticisms of my horribly writing here that have been repeated a few times each, but the one about my 'conclusion' adding too much new content is spot-on and original.

Does the added notes at the beginning as a replacement for the whole long thing help? Like with the shorter more immediate list of references (and the clarification of why I wanted to put that information about Michel Thomas in there, despite having to shoehorn it in)?