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September 19, 2016September 14, 2016Rebekah O'Dell

Writing Floats on Talk: Pitching Our Ideas

My word-of-the-year, the thought on which I want to focus my energies and instructional experimentation, is “talk”. James Britton famously wrote that “writing floats on a sea of talk.” I want my students’ writing to float … and then to fly. So, yes, I want them to write five times as much as I can […]

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