I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. —Audre Lorde
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About the Article
I recommend this
article to anyone who might need/want a story about how we teach writing/literacy
matters. Martinez responds to (and conjures up) several questions I have
thought about (or someone nudged me to consider) over the last academic year as
I struggled to write, teach, and learn:
What is valid and
true in the writing process?
What/which writing
rules really matter?
Can critical
thinking exist within the way we teach writing right now?
Is writing linear or
recursive?
Wait a minute! Which
texts are mentor texts?
Obviously, the article
challenged my thinking, but it also validated some of my own
frustrations with what gets valued as scholarship in academia.
