Thanks to all of you for submitting your first blog posts. They were all well developed and enjoyable to read, and provided some great insights into your writing processes and experiences with learning to write. The discussion prompted several interesting strands. Here's a few key ideas (apart from the blatantly obvious) you've begun to mention that we'll probably discuss more as the semester continues:
Audience Awareness
Experienced vs. novice writers
Genres of writing
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Writing teachers as coaches
Choosing writing topics
Testing writing
Emotional (expressive) writing
Feel free to include any relevant links or images in your blogsand, as you write your next blog, continue to think about your own experiences with writing, your goals as writing teachers, and the difficulties or problems you foresee with implementing the theories we're reading about.
"It has been said that a preposition is a particularly bad word to end a sentence with." Porter Perrin.
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