Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years

After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is not really interested in teaching students to write and communicate clearly. The group’s agenda, clear to me after sampling as many of the meeting’s 500 panels as I could, is devoted to disparaging grammar, logic, reason, evidence and fairness as ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Jon Mitchell - Apr 22, 2011 - 9:16 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Jon Mitchell (review), Don Bertschman (review), David Lujan (review), The Thomas (review)
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Apr 22, 2011 - 9:22 AM PDT

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Jon Mitchell
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by Jon Mitchell - Apr. 22, 2011

Interesting (read: troubling) essay about where the priorities are in teaching writing to college students at this point in history.

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Don Bertschman
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by Don Bertschman - Apr. 22, 2011
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The Thomas
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by The Thomas - Apr. 28, 2011

People believe crazy crap, this is true. Why teachers are special in this case was not explained. What is crazy was not actually described, instead the author quoted phrases like "grammar police" and "good enough" as if these bespoke craziness without need of explanation.

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