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Article: Secret to good writing? Rewriting!
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- University Affairs
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Assn of Universities & Colleges of Canada Nov 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A writing coach advises instructors how to teach students to write no matter what discipline you teach
"Writing should be a part of all [university] courses, because in the real world we all write," asserts Toby Fulwiler. "And good writing can be a whole lot of things - like a passive [voice], evasive memo terminating someone's job" - if that's what is called for.
The University of Alberta's Writing Task Force recently hosted Dr. Fulwiler's "Teaching-with-Writing" workshops, giving faculty an opportunity to learn how to incorporate writing into all courses, across the curriculum. The task force, established last fall, has a mandate to assess writing instruction and writing competency at the ...