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“Just as the nature of an expectation for literacy has changed in the past century and a half, so has the nature of writing.
Though poets and novelists may enjoy debating whether or not writing can be taught, we hope to debunk dangerous assumptions held by many professors of literary studies , rhetoric and composition, and even creative writing itself, which collectively establish a lore that writers are born, not taught, and thus an exploration of effective practices will benefit only a few.
Setting aside the question of whether one is able to learn to be an artistc genius, there is ample empirical evidence that anyone is able to best at writing, and that what professors do makes a difference in how much students are capable of achieving as writers.”
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