Revision, the Muddle of the Middle, and the Necessity of Learning from Failure
In 1989, a long time ago, as I entered my fourth year as a teacher, I decided to share some of my writing with my first-year composition class. My aim […]
Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literacy
In 1989, a long time ago, as I entered my fourth year as a teacher, I decided to share some of my writing with my first-year composition class. My aim […]
Comparing writing to a conversation became a commonplace during the 1980s and ’90s in Composition/Rhetoric circles. As short-hand for the many ways that thinking and writing are socially constructed, the […]