Reading and writing

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Leonard Ernsbarger's well-researched column, "Reading in the Classrooms," in Wednesday's Nevada Daily Mail, was extremely interesting to me. For one thing, I've recently retired from Cottey College, where I spent 31 years "teaching writing," by which I mean not the explicit meanings of the English words on the page, which college students that age have pretty well mastered, but the implicit meanings or suggestions of those words -- which can make all the difference between negative and positive, harsh and easy-going, hostile and friendly. One of the many things I learned in all those years was that no one, absolutely no one, in all honesty, can say he's "mastered" the art of writing. You never learn something as effectively as when you teach it, but no one has nothing to learn about writing.

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