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Sue Livingston's avatar

It would make my job considerably easier as a teacher of writing if I just offered feedback on surface issues in my students’ writing. What is considerably harder is what seems to be the elephant in the room here and that is talking about how what students are reading for a particular writing assignment is accurately and logically connected to the point of the assignment. How many times have we realized that the reason for hard-to-understand writing is misunderstood reading? Surely more useful feedback would have students discuss with their teacher how and why they integrated a particular reading into their writing assignment.

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Andrew Evans's avatar

The expert to talk to with regard to teaching writing is John Warner:

https://engagededucation.substack.com/p/the-science-ofwriting

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