Another Grand Synthesis

If you click on the link above, you'll find a position statement from NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) that provides a more recent summary of what "we" now believe about writing. (More recent than the article I emailed to you, although that one is useful, too.)

In your individual blogs, in addition to anything else you feel moved to write there, I want to encourage you to continue to use the readings and class discussions to revisit and reconsider what it might mean to teach writing in college and how you might go about doing that. Reading and reflecting. That's the main "purpose" I see in keeping an individual blog for the class, though you're certainly free to do more with it.