What do you know about writing? Some of our experiences with writing shape how we think and communicate long before we realize those experiences were helpful or hurtful. Have you learned to become fearful or apprehensive when it comes to writing because you just don't know where to start? Or, do you embrace your pen every day and dive into your journal, poems, or stories to escape the drum of everyday life?
After students read a few short texts on the benefits of writing well, beginning with a positive attitude, opening up to the practice of writing, and letting themselves go, I wondered what old ideas about writing pervaded the texts AND what ideas were new to them. Here are their responses...
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