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Writing classrooms are places of action where students inquire, investigate, summarize, reflect, debate, and collude. Yes, the writer is a solitary scribe, alone at a desk with a pen; but writers are also rhetoricians, swaying audiences and influencing intellectual trends. My classroom is a rehearsal space for young rhetoricians, where we learn to be careful observers, critical readers, and curious researchers. How? We look to the city, with its endless demands to be described and explained; we read essays and search in libraries for ideas that demand to be exposed and interrogated. We experiment with style, voice, and point of view in workshop environments that require respect, courage, rigor, and honesty
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