writing myths and anxiety

The Sixth Paragraph: A Re-Vision of the Essay

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Paul Lynch Volume 2 Chapter Description The English word “essay” comes from the French verb essai, which means something like “to try” or “to attempt.” Originally, essays were thought experiments, and an essay’s author did not worry about having a main point or a formal structure. This chapter explores this history and describes the difference […]

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Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students

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E. Shelley Reid Volume 2 Chapter Description Writing is hard. It’s harder if your students think of it as a collection of arbitrary rules than if they think of it as a human communication process they already understand a lot about. Using comparisons to familiar events (doing laundry, making fruit Jell-O, writing thank-you notes, and

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