The concept of writerly teaching has been featured in this space on several occasions and will most likely be again in the future, but that’s not going to stop me now…
All of this talking and writing that I’ve been doing about writerliness would seem to be vulnerable to one or two objections, one of which might be a question along the lines of “How is this any different than simply teaching critical reading skills?”
The difference I see is that when instructors teach critical or analytical reading (and writing), we teach students to apply those skills to all of the texts they encounter save one—the text of our own teaching.
Writerly teaching takes that last step, perhaps the most important step of all.
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