The Way Some People Write
Some people are just better than me. Their house is better than mine. Their kids are more successful and have better attitudes than mine have. Some people have made the […]
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The Five Paragraph Theme: What is Being Taught?
Perhaps it is not stretching matters to call the five paragraph theme (hereafter FPT) the foundational writing practice of the public schools. Though long criticized by teachers of Composition for […]
Writing is not like Speech
Writing and speech are too often compared, mistaken for each other even. We consider too often their apparent similarities. Too many of my students claim to write as they speak, […]
A Few Ways to Teach Revision
Revision hardly seems controversial. Most of the time, most of us assume it is something all writers do, or should do. It also seems to be such a drag to […]
Revision as Not Just the Same Old Song: Another Parallel to Music
This might seem like a shameless plug for my Pretexts book. But it has occurred to me over the last week of talking with my first-year students about the parallels […]