Fabulous and courageous post, Brooke. Everything that has needed to be said. Just today I was trying to expain to a client and student about subsidy publishing and the false promises made by Balboa. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Your message states that: "Studies have shown that typing doesn’t help the brain develop as much as writing in long hand. ."
Can you please provide citations? (Author a...
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Pam, I love your comment. Maybe teaching is different from a critique group. If I were to teach a class at our local writing support facility, and I had, say fourteen st...
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You may have a real point there. Shielding the flame as it sparks requires a whole different approach. And yet. . .
I think sometimes what matters most is two-fold: how...
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Sara -- You make excellent points. Thanks on behalf of all of us in the writing community for reaching out to the woman in the baseball cap! Much depends, I think, on...
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Hi, Ellen,
This idea sounds lovely and has some real validity, but I think it will depend highly on the amount and kind of people's experiences with being critiqued. I...
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I think it depends upon the writer in question. If they are the sort who can ''take'' hard and constructive criticism, acknowledging the good but coming down on the bad,...
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Good point. All to often, teachers of writing forget to nurture what is positive in the student's writing.
As a writing teacher for over 30 years now, first in graduate school, now wor...
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Brooke, Happy new Year! I don't agree with the writer of that article. Books are still being published today and read and people are reading on their phones, tablets,...
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Mrs. Jill is utterly honest in everything she writes about, including the "hot pink nails":). In fact, she is so true that I got scared simply by reading her story. If t...
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