Revising a Writer's Identity: Reading and "Re-Modeling" in a Composition Class

College Composition and Communication Feb 1996

Revising a Writer's Identity: Reading and "Re-Modeling" in a Composition Class

Nancy Welch

Abstract

I always thought it was unfair to compare people you've just met to people you've known before. But as I was sitting in class today, I realized I was doing that with you. My first semester here I got into a [composition] class that was marvelous. Jim and the style he used helped take down the bricks that had formed my writing blocks. It was like seeing and feeling and breathing for the very first time. It was exciting. Today, I thought, This woman will have to be pretty good to be as good as he was. Then I mentally slapped myself.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 1996-02-01
DOI: 10.2307/358273
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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