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‘Two workmen muttering’

In his book, Learning by Teaching, Donald Murray characterises the act of writing as a muttered conversation between two people at a workbench:  The act of writing might be described as a conversation between two workmen muttering to each other at the workbench.  The self speaks, the other self listens and responds. The self proposes, the other self … Continue reading ‘Two workmen muttering’ →

We believe that the teaching of writing is significantly strengthened if teachers write for themselves and with others. In writing for ourselves we make discoveries about what we can and cannot do, how writing works for us, how we get ourselves out of scrapes and into things that matter to us. And we find ways … Continue reading →