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Judith Rodriguez
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/ #63 How writers learn and work

2010-11-26 14:35

Writing courses based on narrow ideas of utility are educationally naive (to put it mildly). They will not produce efficient technical writers and bright PR writers; these and other paying lines of writing need a background of experimentation and discipline in a much wider variety of writing forms and genres. "Creative" does not mean useless. It does express a responsible idea of education in the use of language. The petition resists a reductive travesty in which students become victims of mis-managers of education.