Teaching English in the Two-Year College Oct 1997

An Interview with Peter Elbow

Kelly Peinado

Abstract

Peter Elbow reiterates his philosophy of teaching writing, including to start with personal and experiential writing, to look more at how the writing does and doesn’t work rather than the "quality" of the writing, to use lots of freewriting.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
1997-10-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc19973823
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Topics
writing pedagogy

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