What Do We Teach When We Teach Writing?
By: Carol Booth Olson
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3
Date: June 1986
Summary: Olson finds no answer to this question. "A teacher's job is to empower students to tap their natural [language] resources—not to put language into their heads, but to help them express what's already there."
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