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Invention - generating ideas - disappears from writing instruction. Outlining becomes the entry into writing.

The emphasis on audience - the relationship between the writer and the reader - disappears.

Persuasion - rhetoric - also disappears.

What remained was the most impoverished form of writing instruction.

FORM became important. Remember the 5-paragraph essay you learned to write in school? That's FORM.

CORRECTNESS also became important, as English became the language of writing (usurping French, Latin, and Greek). Spelling, grammar, and word definition and usage were standardized Dictionaries became the guide for all these aspects of writing in English.

The new emphasis on FORM and CORRECTNESS are still emphasized today, as evidenced by the spell and grammar checker built in to every word processing program. To say nothing of the much maligned "assistant".

Solution

The Dartmouth Conference

Idea 4

The Dartmouth Conference was held in the 1960's, in response to literacy studies that found fault with the writing instruction of the time.

The new model has its limitations: it's not how writers really write, and it shows only similarities, not differences, in approach.

They conducted a study not just of what good writing was, but of how it was produced. Writers of all kinds were interviewed and observed, data was collected and analysed, and a new model was developed.

No one learns to write without instruction

Science is to blame!

In the mid-19th Century, the rise of sciences and writing about science had a devastating effect on writing instruction.

Writing instruction has traditionally reflected, and manifested in, the writing, thinking, and philosophy of the time.

With a long enough view, patterns can be seen to emerge.

The evolution of writing instruction

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