Dec 092015
Did anyone come away from reading Responding to Student Writing thinking some of the arguments Nancy Sommers makes are dated? I would argue that commenting/editing practices she’d like to see adopted are more easily applied to students in 1982, students who were undoubtedly, in their less plugged in era, far better novice writers. I would argue that they did not suffer as much from the pervasive inability to form sentences that plagues campuses today. Classroom application today of what she was hawking during the Reagan Administration often puts the cart before the horse.
It’s a blog. I can end with a cliché.