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The First Hour of the First Day

"The writing instructor becomes a member of the class. This is a special privilege writing teachers enjoy: they can enter into the learning... It can, and should be, a matter of helping students discover what they have to say and how they may be able to say it." (76)

Inviting Writing

  • "Our students should be teaching us the subject while we are teaching them to write." (96)

Response Theory

"It is the responsibility of the writer to respond first and the responsibility of the teacher to respond to that response." (139)

"We learn best... when we are not told in the abstract what to do and then commanded to do it, but are encouraged to write and then have the opportunity to examine what we have done with an experienced writer, who can help us discover what worked and what needs work." (4)

Writing For Discovery

"The writer sits down intending to say one thing and hears the writing saying something more, or less, or completely different. The writing surprises, instructs, receives, questions, tells its own story, and the writer becomes the reader wondering what will happen next." (7)

Conference Teaching

A Model of the Writing Process

"If teachers allow students to speak first they will discover that they have a response." (154)

  • Collect: "Writers are writing all the time." (12)
  • Plan: "Writers write before they write." (17)
  • Develop: "The first word is on the page and the possibilities diminish. The second word follows and the possibilities shrink." (41)

Donald Murray "A Writer Teaches Writing"

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