Tag: revision
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Allatonceness, Or, The Impossibility of Chapter 1
Rethink where writing “starts” I’m a third-generation college textbook author, but I couldn’t figure out how to start writing one. Sure, I could easily start composing pages and pages of ideas about how students could improve their writing: I have no end of advice I’m happy to share about writing. But I couldn’t figure out…
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Four Moves That Reflective Writers Make
Rethink the “post-script” as the model for reflection The fourth writing program that I taught in was at a school that required every class to have a final exam. What should a first-year writing final exam look like? I knew it wasn’t a typical “timed essay” graded on how well students plugged truisms into a…