You might be lucky. You might be in a school or class in which every student is a fluent writer. Sure, some might be better than others, but every student can produce writing that is at least coherent and comprehensible.
But most teachers are not this lucky. Most teachers live in a world in which student writing is pretty bad: it doesn't make sense, it doesn't hang together, it's a mess.
You might know the feeling.
This is not new. People have always been bad at writing. Every generation decries the decline in standards—or rather, the teachers and writers of every generation decry the abilities of the less-literate population around them. Perhaps this means it is unrealistic to think this can be improved.
But we do now live in an information economy and the social, economic and political consequences of a majority of people being bad writers are high.
So it would be great if everyone was good at writing:
- You wouldn't dread reading a student's writing.
- You would know that you could give useful feedback.
- You could assume that anyone else can communicate clearly, coherently and expressively.
- Nobody sees text as something to fear, but as something to engage with.
It would be great if our normal was that good.
This is why our goal with this tool is to make it trivially easy to develop sentence and paragraph-level fluency. We want this capability to be a non-issue; something everyone acquires as a matter of course.
